[ad_1] null / Credit: FreshStock/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2025 / 16:15 pm (CNA). The Vatican announced this week that Pope Francis has erected a new diocese in China and appointed Father Anthony Ji Weizhong as its first bishop.The pope decided last October to suppress the Diocese of Fenyang in mainland China, which was originally erected in 1946 by Pope Pius XII, and at the same time erect the new Diocese of Lüliang. Diocesan borders have been an area of dispute between the Vatican…

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