Archdiocese of Nanjing

ARCHDIOCESE OF NANJING (Dioecesis Curiensis)

Country : China
Denomination : Roman Catholic

Established : 1660 as Apostolic Vicariate of Nanjing
Elevated to Diocese of Nanjing in 1690
Demoted to Apostolic Vicariate of Kiangnan in 1856
Renamed in 1921 to Apostolic Vicariate of Kiangsu
Renamed in 1922 to Apostolic Vicariate of Nanjing
Elevated to Archdiocese in 1946
Vacant since 1949 (1978)

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Arms of Bishops, vicars and Archbishops

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Ignace Cotolendi (1660-1662)
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Gregory Luo Wenzao (1674-1691)
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Giovanni Francesco Nicolai ( 1691-1694)
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Alessandro Ciceri (1694-1703)
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Antonio de Silva ( 1707-1726)
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António Paes Godinho (1718-1721)
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Emmanuel de Jesus-Maria-Joseph (1721-1739)
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Francesco de Santa Rosa de Viterbo (1742-1750)
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Gottfried Xaver von Laimbeckhoven (1752-1787)
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Alexandre de Gouvea (1787-1804)
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Eusebio Luciano Carvalho Gomes da Silva (1789-1790)
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Cajetan Pires Pireira (1804-1838)
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Luigi Celestino Spelta (1855-1856)
André-Pierre Borgniet (1856-1862)
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Mathurin Lemaître ( 1862-1863)
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Joseph Gonnet ( 1863-1866)
Adrien-Hyppolyte Languillat (1864-1878)
Valentin Garnier (1879-1898)
Jean-Baptiste Simon (1899-1899)
Jules Prosper París (1900-1931)
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Auguste Alphonse Pierre Haouisée (1931-1933)
Paul Yü Pin (1936-1978)

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