The Apostolic Prefecture of Hainan is a pre-diocesan missionary Latin jurisdiction of the Catholic Church covering the Chinese province of Hainan, which...

An apostolic prefect or prefect apostolic is a priest who heads what is known as an apostolic prefecture, a 'pre-diocesan' missionary jurisdiction where...

consisting of 21 metropolitan archdioceses and 101 suffragan dioceses 28 apostolic prefectures 1 exempt diocese, the Diocese of Macau 1 apostolic administration...

and 2,249 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal...

Tianshui is a prefecture-level city in Gansu province, China, and is the province's second-largest city (behind the provincial capital Lanzhou). Located...

provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the island of Hainan to its authority. on April 22, 1841, to establish the then-Apostolic Prefecture of Hong Kong...

into eight prefecture-level divisions: two prefecture-level cities and six autonomous prefectures: The eight prefecture-level divisions of Qinghai are...

for Evangelization), not part of any ecclesiastical province. It was established on 1937.06.17 as Apostolic Prefecture of Suixian (隨縣) / Suihsien / Suihsienen(sis)...

contaminated farmland. Xinjiang Roman Catholics are served by the Apostolic Prefecture of Xinxiang (Latin: Sinsiang / Sinsiangen(sis)), which was established...

000 in 2004. It is the seat of the Latin Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Zhaotong. The main industries in the prefecture are mining, tobacco and cement...

prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of the People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the...

(Chinese: 湘潭) is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hunan province, south-central China. The hometowns of several founding leaders of the Chinese Communist...

after the see name. Missionary and other special types of circumscriptions (e.g., apostolic prefectures) are also specified before the country name. Contents...

The Catholic minority is pastorally served by the (pre-diocesan) Apostolic Prefecture of Xining. The municipality oversees seven districts and counties...

and the seat of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Sichuan, China. The Qiongdu were the local people at the time of contact with China...

the hands of the Jin dynasty, and after 1235 it came into the possession of the Mongol Empire. Under the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) the prefecture was demoted...

conquest of the Jin Empire (1211–1234), Huining Prefecture was abandoned. In the 17th century, the Manchus used building materials from Huining Prefecture to...

Map romanization was "Chengtu." Its former status as the seat of the Chengdu Prefecture prompted Marco Polo's spellings "Sindafu," "Sin-din-fu," &c. and...

following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups. There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups. Membership of an ethnic group...

mainland China. As of October 2019[update], it is also the second largest free-trade zone in mainland China in terms of land area (behind Hainan Free Trade Zone [zh]...

provinces of Hainan in China and Jeju in South Korea. The Douzelage is a town twinning association with one town from each of the member states of the European...

seat of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Kweichow. This was suppressed in 1715 and restored in 1846. In 1924 it was renamed as the Apostolic Vicariate...

according to the findings of the China Family Panel Studies of 2012. Data for all provinces with Han Chinese majority, excluding Hainan, Hong Kong, Inner Mongolia...

Beijing, China Chengdu, Sichuan, China Guangzhou, Guangdong, China Haikou, Hainan, China Jing'an District, Shanghai, China Jinzhou, Liaoning, China Jurong...