Teresa Hall

Teresa Catholic Church in Jiangbei City

synonym

Teresa church generally refers to Teresa Catholic Church in Jiangbei City

Located in the Central Park of Chongqing jiangbeizui Central Business District, the former site is located at No. 13, mitingzi, Jiangbei City. In the fifth year of Xianfeng (1855) of the Qing Dynasty, father Li Fangji bought a private house (named Boji Hall) as a church. It was rebuilt in 1881. In 1928, Shang Weishan, bishop of Chongqing diocese (French, consecrated as bishop of Chongqing diocese on September 21, 1926), issued a decree calling on his followers to donate money for the construction of the current Jiangbei Teresa church.

brief introduction

The former site of Teresa Catholic Church in Jiangbei City is located at No. 13, mitingzi, Jiangbei City. In the fifth year of Xianfeng (1855) of the Qing Dynasty, father Li Fangji bought a private house (named Boji Hall) as a church. It was rebuilt in 1881. Today's Jiangbei Teresa church is Shang Weishan, bishop of Chongqing diocese on the 16th of the Republic of China (October 24, 1927) (French, consecrated as bishop of Chongqing diocese on September 21, 1926) It was completed in 1928 by issuing a decree calling on its members to donate money for the construction. The edict said that "in this time of frequent wars, in the autumn of chaos and disaster, the place is corrupt, the people are in constant trouble, and the people in the northern and southern provinces are suffering a lot. In this difficult autumn, our bishop, regardless of China and foreign countries, together in the same boat, entrusted the Church of Eastern Sichuan and all its members to Jesus Teresa, the virgin baby, to protect them forever, and vowed to build a sanctuary in Jiangbei City In memory of the benefactor, she was a saint. To this end, he ordered the priests of each church to encourage their members to donate money to establish this church in return for the grace of the saint. " Therefore: it was named Teresa church, Saint Teresa (1873-1897), French, whose real name was Mardin Marie Francis, also known as Saint Teresa junior. At the age of 15, she entered the cloister church to practice, and was renamed baby Jesus Teresa. In 1910, the Ministry of sacrament of Rome began to investigate the cases of legislation. In 1923, she was established as a true blessing. In 1925, she was listed as a saint (Saint), and in 1926, she was appointed as the world's preacher. He has served as a priest in the Chinese and foreign churches: Geronimo Huang, 1868-1875; Ximan section, 1875-1878; Peter yuan, 1879-1880; father AI, 1880-1884; Mencius, 1884-1890; Francis, 1891; Peter Zhou, 1892-1897; andewu, 1897-1901; father Dong, 1919; father Yang, 1924-1927; Jia long, 1929-1933; betim, 1935-1936; November, 1941 Wang Huiren, 1948; Shi Liangliang, 1948-1950 (1886-1968, 1951 acting bishop of Chongqing diocese; April 1963, Chongqing diocese elected himself as the first orthodox bishop of Saint); Xia Jinxian, 1950-1958; Wang Jingdong, 1958-1966; Yang Fangji, 1994-1994-1997-11; Liu Xianyuan, 1997-11-2003-5-19; Zhao Xiaoping and Liu Wenming, 2003-5-20 .

historical accounts of past events

During the "Cultural Revolution", Jiangbei DeLisa hall was occupied by Jiangbei auto parts factory. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the religious policy was implemented and the property rights were transferred back to the church. In December 1988, the people's Government of Jiangbei district designated it as a "district level cultural relics protection unit". On September 30, 1994, the people's Government of Jiangbei District approved the resumption of opening up and religious activities. After the resumption of religious activities. Father Yang Fangji (Francis) is in charge of the church, and the management team of Teresa church is responsible for the management of the church and religious activities. On December 1, 1997, the first representative conference of the Catholic Church in Jiangbei District and the founding conference of the Catholic Patriotic Association in Jiangbei District were successfully held (on November 26, 2007, the third representative conference of the Catholic Church in Jiangbei District was held in the blue arrow Hotel). Since then, the daily management of the church and religious activities has been carried out by the patriotic religious organization, the regional Catholic Patriotic Association, which is a bridge between the party and the government and the religious community. In addition to strengthening daily management and giving full play to the role of bridge and link, we have set up public welfare rest houses (ashes Hall) and homes for the aged (which have been suspended due to the demolition of Jiangbei City). At the same time, we also regularly or irregularly carry out various public welfare activities, such as poverty relief, helping the poor, condoling the orphans and the disabled, etc., so as to make due contributions to the construction of a socialist harmonious society. The work of the district Catholic Patriotic Association has won a good social reputation, and has been rated as "advanced unit" by the Civil Affairs Bureau of Jiangbei District for four consecutive years. At present, there are more than 10000 religious members in our district. Some of the neighboring Yuzhong District, Nan'an District, Shapingba District and Yubei district also come to Teresa hall to participate in religious activities. Every year, it receives a certain number of domestic and foreign religious personages or delegation to visit, and has successively received visiting groups from Guiyang diocese bishop Wang Chongyi, Wanzhou diocese bishop Xu Zhixuan, assistant bishop he Zeqing, Taiyuan Catholicism, Beijing diocese nunnery, Xi'an Diocese, Catholicism in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, France, the United States, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines In addition, the BBC paid a friendly visit to the Catholic Church in Jiangbei District, which is one of the most influential churches in Chongqing Catholic Diocese's foreign exchanges.

In 2005, Chongqing municipal government decided to demolish and develop Jiangbei City as a whole and build jiangbeizui central business district. In the Central Park of jiangbeizui Central Business District, Jiangbei delesa hall was enlarged and relocated in the same proportion as the original cultural relics. On May 10, 2008, delesa hall was officially handed over to Jiangbei Catholic Patriotic Association. On October 1, 2008, the Catholic Diocese of Chongqing, jiangbeizui, held a grand mass in the central business district of jiangbeizui in celebration of the opening of the church and the 111th anniversary of the ascension of Saint Teresa. The ceremony was attended by more than 1000 people, including members of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, deputies to the National People's Congress, vice chairman of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, bishop Ma Yinglin, head and Secretary General of the Chinese Catholic Episcopal Church, and heads of patriotic associations from all districts and counties in the city. The relocated church is one of the landmark buildings in Chongqing, and it is also an important window of Chongqing's foreign exchange (foreign church).

Address: No.13, mitingzi, Jiangbei District, Chongqing

Longitude: 106.539198

Latitude: 29.575459

Tel: 023-67553654

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