Kan-su, PREFECTURE APOSTOLIC OF Southern, separated from the Northern Kan-su mission in 1905, and committed to the Belgian Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Scheutveld, Brussels. It includes the seven southern prefectures of Kan-su. Tsin-chou, Ping-liang-fu, Kung-chang-fu, King-chou Kiai-chou, King-yang-fu and Kung-yuen-fu. It tains about 8,000,000 inhabitants. The first pr Apostolic is Reverend Everard Joseph Terlaak, dw ing at Tsin-chou. In 1907 the mission consisted 1 prefect Apostolic, 10 missionaries, 3 native priests 23 churches and chapels, 6 schools with 42 students 1 college with 5 students, 3 orphan asylums with 35 children, 1031 Catholics. In 1908: 1 prefect . Stolic, 12 missionaries, 3 native priests, and 1106 Catholics.
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