Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jinan

The Chinese Archdiocese of Jinan, (lat. Archidioecesis Zinanensis ) was founded on September 3, 1839 the Vicariate Apostolic of Scian tone Settentrionale, changed his name on December 3, 1924 Tsinanfu and was raised on 1 April 1946 in the rank of an archbishopric. This is the Metropolitan of seven suffragan sees.

It covers an area of 25,000 km2 and had 1950 44 016 Catholics, 0.9% of the regional population. Mainly served by Franciscans, it counted at this time 19 diocesan priests and 65 religious priests, which must be added 28 nuns came.

His last head was the Franciscan John P'ing Ta - Kuam of which is only known that he was in 1952 raised to the administrator of the archdiocese, according to Archbishop Cyril Jarre OFM ( 1929-1952 ).