Catholic Church in Sichuan
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The presence of the Catholic Church in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan and city of Chongqing dates back to 1640, when two missionaries, Lodovico Buglio and Gabriel de Magalhães, through Jesuit missions in China, entered the province and spent much of the 1640s evangelizing in Chengdu and its surrounding areas.
Artus de Lionne, first Apostolic Vicar of Szechwan.
After a portrait of François Pottier painted in 1787 at Chengdu
Interior of Annunciation Church, Dengchigou, former Seminary of Muping.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chengdu is a suffragan Latin Catholic diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Chongqing covering southwestern China's Sichuan area, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
