Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Taipei
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Taipei
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| Traditional Chinese | 天主教台北總教區 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 天主教台北总教区 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | Archidioecesis Taipehensis | ||||||||||||||||
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Taipei (Latin: Archidioecesis Taipehensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Taiwan. Pope Pius XII erected it as the Apostolic Prefecture of Taipei on December 30, 1949, and elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese on August 7, 1952, with the suffragan sees of Chiayi, Hsinchu, Hualien, Kaohsiung, Taichung, and Tainan.
The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. As the only metropolitan in Taiwan, it is also the primatial see of that country. The current Archbishop of Taipei is His Excellency John Hung Shan-Chuan, having been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on November 9, 2007. Archbishop Hung returned early – after people urged him to return – from a plenary synod of bishops for Asia in August 2009, in order to help give aid to the survivors of Typhoon Morakot.
List of Ordinaries of Taipei
- Joseph Kuo Joshih (1950 - 1959)
- Thomas Tien Ken-sin (Apostolic Administrator, 1959 - 1966)
- Stanislaus Lo Kuang (1966 - 1978)
- Matthew Kia Yen-wen (1978 - 1989)
- Joseph Ti-kang (1989 - 2004)
- Joseph Cheng Tsai-fa (2004 - 2007)
- John Hung Shan-Chuan (2007 - present)
See also
External links
- The Archdiocese of Taipei (Chinese (Taiwan))
- Catholic-Hierarchy
- Giga-Catholic Information
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