Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau

Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau
Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	天主教澳門教區
Simplified Chinese	天主教澳门教区
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Tiānzhǔjiào Àomén Jiàoqū
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	tin1 zyu2 gaau3 ou3 mun4*2 gaau3 keoi1
Portuguese name
Portuguese	Diocese de Macau

Diocese of Macau

*Dioecesis Macaonensis*

天主教澳門教區
Diocese of Macau; Dioecesis Macaonensis; 天主教澳門教區
	Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady
Location
Country	China
Territory	Macau
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

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 also belongs to the diocese, but in practice, the diocese is limited to Macau.

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 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."

[1] "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.

[2] 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."

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