Archdiocese of Shenyang
catholic archdiocese in China
The Archdiocese of Shenyang (Latin: Fomtienen(sis), Chinese: 瀋陽, 奉天) is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese in northeastern PR China.
Its cathedral episcopal see is a Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the city of Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province.
History
The Apostolic Vicariate of Liaotung 遼東, alias of Manchuria and Mongolia 滿蒙, was established by Pope Gregory XVI in 1838, taking the "vast Tartar province called Leao-Tung" from the existing Roman Catholic Diocese of Beijing 北京.
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