Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, Shenyang

Sacred Heart Cathedral

The Sacred Heart Cathedral of Shenyang (in Chinese: 沈阳圣心教堂) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. It is commonly called Nanguan Catholic Church (in Chinese: 南关天主教堂) or officially the Sacred Heart of Jesus Diocesan Cathedral in Shenyang (Chinese: 沈阳耶稣圣心主教座堂) because the bishop of Shenyang Diocese resides here. In 2006 the Vatican agreed to Paul Pei (Pei Jun Min) being installed as the Bishop of Shenyang.^[1]

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The Catholic church became established in northeastern China in 1838 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Liaotung 遼東 / Manchuria and Mongolia 滿蒙獨立 (The Good News was brought to the Shenyang area by Jean Chenin (in Chinese: 神南诺望), a French missionary, who came in 1861 by way of Yingkou. A church was built in 1861, followed by a nursery and a school. During the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, they were destroyed. Based on the indemnity of the Rebellion, a large cathedral was built by the Paris Foreign Missions Society, which remains the current cathedral.^{[citation needed]}

See also[]

• Christianity and Catholicism
• Christianity in China
• Roman Catholicism in China
• Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
• List of Catholic cathedrals in China
• Catholic churches in Northeast China:

Dalian Catholic Church, Sacred Heart Cathedral of Shenyang, St. Theresa's Cathedral of Changchun, Sacred Heart Cathedral of Harbin, etc.

• Protestant churches in Northeast China:

Yuguang Street Church, Dongguan Church, Changchun Christian Church, Harbin Nangang Christian Church, etc

References[]

External links[]

• Shengyang Nanguan Catholic Church (The Shenyang City Government Web) (in Chinese)
• Chinese Catholicism - Its history, present status and future (Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan, 2007) (in Japanese)
• Understanding the Roman Catholic Church in China (U.S. Catholic Christian Bureau, 2002) (in English)

Coordinates: 41°47′17″N 123°26′47″E / 41.7881°N 123.4464°E / 41.7881; 123.4464