Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hankou

History

• Established in 1696 as Apostolic Vicariate of Hupeh and Hunan 湖廣 / Houkouang, on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Fujian
• Renamed on 8 April 1856 as Apostolic Vicariate of Hupeh 湖北 / Hu-pé, having lost territory to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Hunan 湖南)
• Lost territory on 1870.09.02 to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Southwestern Hupeh 湖北南境
• Renamed on September 11, 1870 as Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Hupeh, having lost territory to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Northwestern Hupeh 湖北西北)
• Renamed on December 12, 1923 after its see as Apostolic Vicariate of Hankou
• Lost territories again : on 1929.07.18 to establish Mission sui juris of Huangzhou 黃州 and on 1937.06.17 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Suixian 隨縣
• Promoted on 1946.04.11 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Hankou

  Ecclesiastical province

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanyang 漢陽
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Laohekou
• Puqi 蒲圻
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Qizhou 蘄州
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Shinan 施南
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Wuchang 武昌
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Xiangyang 襄陽
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Yichang 宜昌

  Episcopal ordinaries

• Giovanni Francesco Nicolai, Friars Minor , Titular Archbishop of Myra, previously Bishop of Nanjing 南京 , Titular Bishop of Berytus
• Giacomo Luigi Fontana, Paris Foreign Missions Society , Titular Bishop of Sinita ; previously Apostolic Vicar of Szechwan 四川
• Giovanni Domenico Rizzolati, O.F.M. , Titular Bishop of Arad

• Luigi Celestino Spelta, Reformed Friars Minor , Titular Bishop of Thespia ; next Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Kiangnan 江南
• Eustachio Vito Modesto Zanoli, O.F.M. , Titular Bishop of Eleutheropolis ; succeeding as previous Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Hupeh 湖北, earlier Titular Bishop of Magyddus

• Eustachio Vito Modesto Zanoli, O.F.M.
• Epiphane Carlassare, O.F.M. , Titular Bishop of Madauros

• Graziano Génnaro, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Hiericho, succeeding as previous Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Hupeh 湖北東境
• Apostolic Administrator Eugenio Massi, O.F.M. , Titular Bishop of Joppe ; previously Apostolic Vicar of Northern Shansi 山西北境 , Apostolic Vicar of Central Shensi 陝西中境 , Apostolic Vicar of Xi’anfu 西安府
• Eugenio Massi, O.F.M.

• Giuseppe Ferruccio Maurizio Rosà, O.F.M.
• uncanonical Bernardine Dong Guang-qing, O.F.M. , first term without papal mandate
• Victor Liu He-de
• Giuseppe Ferruccio Maurizio Rosà, O.F.M., canonical second term with papal mandate
• long vacancy