Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kunming

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kunming (Latin: Archidioecesis Coenmimensis; Chinese: 天主教昆明總教區) is an archdiocese located in the city of Kunming, provincial capital of Yunnan, southwestern China.

The Archdiocese has not had a legitimate, Vatican-appointed archbishop since 1952, when French Archbishop Alexandre Derouineau [zh] was expelled from China in the aftermath of the Chinese Communist Revolution.

[1] In 2000, the Vatican appointed Lawrence Zhang Wen-Chang as Apostolic Administrator of Kunming.

[1] The first Catholics in Yunnan were refugees fleeing from the Massacre of Sichuan [zh] (Szechwan) perpetrated by Zhang Xianzhong in the 1640s.

In 1658, a significant number of Catholics retreated to Kunming with the Yongli Emperor, whose family and court were converted to Catholicism by the German Jesuit Andreas Xavier Koffler.

Genealogy of MEP ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Szechwan , with its three attachments: Tibet , Yunnan and Kweichow .