Tingzhou, Longyan

The town of Tingzhou (汀州) is the seat of the Changting County government, Party and police.

History[]

For information on Tingzhou Town's colorful past, see the wiki pages on the county it seats and on the former prefecture it seated.

Reference of Place-name[]

The county town bears the name of the large pre-Republican prefecture which it long administered; Tingzhou fu encompassed Ninghua and Qingliu counties in Sanming municipality as well as the entirety of Longyan.

Religion[]

The town is the seat of a modest cathedral built by Roman Catholic bishop Johann Lesinski. To this day the territory of the Imperial-era prefecture Tingzhou fu remains, in the eyes of the Holy See, a diocese under the Metropolitan at Fuzhou. The cathedral has no such status though under the Patriotic Catholic administration, and in fact is little used even as a church.^[1]

Notes and references[]

Coordinates: 25°50′05″N 116°20′52″E / 25.8346°N 116.3479°E / 25.8346; 116.3479

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