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Archdiocese of Anqing

Catholic archdiocese in China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ1363980 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Anqing 安慶 / Huaining 懷寧 (Wade Giles: Huai-ning / Anking, Latin: Nganchimen(sis)) is an archdiocese located in the city of Anqing in China.

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“Archdiocese of Anqing” enters the record as catholic archdiocese in China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Archdiocese, Anqing and Catholic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 28-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1929. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Archdiocese, Anqing and Catholic.
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Why this record matters

“Archdiocese of Anqing” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Archdiocese, Anqing and Catholic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1363980. Authority coordinates are 31.901, 117.311. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Archdiocese of Anqing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.