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.