Tingzhou (town)

The town of Tingzhou (汀州) is the seat of the Changting County government, Party and police.
==History==
More information on the colorful past of the town and former prefecture is in the article on the county. 
===Reference of Place-name===
The county town bears the name of the large pre-Republican prefecture which it long administered; Tingzhou fu encompassed Ninghua and Qingliu counties in Sanming municipality as well as the entirety of Longyan. 
==Religion==
The town is the seat of a modest cathedral built by Roman Catholic bishop Johann Lesinski. To this day the territory of the Imperial-era prefecture Tingzhou fu remains, in the eyes of the Holy See, a diocese under the Metropolitan at Fuzhou. The cathedral has no such status though under the Patriotic Catholic administration, and in fact is little used even as a church.http://www.gcatholic.com/dioceses/diocese/ting0.htm
==Notes and references==
Category:Catholics not in communion with Rome
Category:Christianity in China
Category:Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association