Diocese of Macau Dioecesis Macaonensis 天主教澳門教區 | |
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| Location | |
| Territory | Macau (special administrative region of the PRC) |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 30 km2 (12 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2013) 582,000 29,611 (5.1%) |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Stephen Lee Bun-sang |
| Vicar General | Father Pedro Chung |
| Website | |
| catholic.org.mo | |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau | |||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 天主教澳門教區 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 天主教澳门教区 | ||||||||||
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| Portuguese | Diocese de Macau | ||||||||||
The Diocese of Macau (Portuguese: Diocese de Macau; Chinese: 天主教澳門教區[romanization needed]) is a Latin Church exempt ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church,[1] in contrast with the Diocese of Hong Kong, which is, de jure, part of the Ecclesiastical Province of Guangdong.
The territory of the Diocese of Macau encompasses Macau, a special administrative region of China. In theory, a part of Guangdong province[where?] also belongs to the diocese, but in practice, the diocese is limited to Macau.[citation needed]
Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady.
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 ethnically Chinese bishop of the diocese.[2]
- ^ "Macau marks 440th anniversary". Sunday Examiner. Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong. 17 January 2016. Archived from the original on 16 January 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ Morgan, S. (2021), 'Em Procissão Solene a Deus Orando, para os Batéis Viemos Caminhando'—The Long Ebb-Tide of Catholic Public Piety in the Former-Portuguese Enclave of Macao, "In 2016, the third Chinese Bishop of Macao was appointed. Stephen Lee Bun-sang is a convert to Catholicism and a native of Hong Kong."