Diocese of Macau
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Diocese of Macau Dioecesis Macaonensis 天主教澳門教區 Tiānzhǔjiào Àomén jiàoqū |
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| Location | |
| Country | Macau, China |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 30 km2 (12 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2013) 582,000 29,611 (5.1%) |
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| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Cathedral | Cathedral Church of Macau |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Stephen Lee Bun-sang |
| Vicar General | Father Pedro Chung |
| Website | |
| diomac.mo | |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 天主教澳門教區 | ||||||
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| Latin | Dioecesis Macaonensis | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Tiānzhǔjiào Àomén jiàoqū |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau (Chinese: 天主教澳門教區, Tiānzhǔjiào Àomén jiàoqū) a Latin diocese, is exempt, i.e. an immediate subject of the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province.
Its cathedral episcopal see, a World Heritage Site, is the Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady, Cathedral Parish 大堂區, on Macau Peninsula, like the former Cathedral: Church of St. Lazarus, St. Lazarus Parish 望德堂區.
Other World Heritage Site, all on Macau Peninsula, are: Chapel of Our Lady Guia, St. Lazarus Parish 望德堂區; Church of St. Anthony, St. Anthony Parish 聖安多尼堂區,; Church of St. Augustine, St. Lawrence Parish 風順堂區; Church of St. Dominic, Cathedral Parish 大堂區; Church of St. Lawrence, St. Lawrence Parish 風順堂區; Seminary and Church of St. Joseph Seminary and Church of St. Joseph, St. Lawrence Parish 風順堂區; Ruins of the Church of the Mother of God, St. Paul’s College Ruins of the Church of the Mother of God, St. Paul’s College, St. Anthony Parish 聖安多尼堂區.
Its patron saints are Francis Xavier and Catherine of Siena, and its motto is Scientia et Virtus (Knowledge and Virtue).
Stephen Lee Bun-sang is the current bishop and the third Chinese bishop (the first is Domingos Lam 林家駿).
It was established on January 23, 1576 by the edict of Pope Gregory XIII, on vast territory split off from Roman Catholic Diocese of Malacca. It originally covered China, Japan, Vietnam and the Malay archipelago, with the exception of the Philippines. From its founding, the diocese was a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese (soon Patriarchate) of Goa, in Portuguese India.
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