Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei

Cardinal Ignatius Kung Pin- Mei (Chinese龚 品 梅/龚 品 梅, Pinyin Gong Pǐnméi, W.-G. Kung P'in -mei; born August 2, 1901 in P'ou -tong, Shanghai, † March 12, 2000 in Stamford, USA) was Bishop of Shanghai. He spent 33 years in communist prison.

Life

Ignatius Kung Pin- Mei received by theological and philosophical studies in Shanghai on May 28, 1930, the sacrament of Holy Orders. He then worked as a parish priest and teacher in the diocese of Shanghai.

1949 Pope Pius XII appointed him. Bishop of Suzhou and he received on 7 October 1949 by the Apostolic Nuncio in China and later Cardinal Antonio Riberi episcopal ordination. In 1950, he entrusted him with the management of the diocese of Shanghai and at the same time charged him with the administration of the dioceses Suzhou and Nanjing. In 1955 he was asked by the communist authorities under arrest, sentenced in 1960 to life imprisonment. In 1985 he was released from prison and placed under house arrest, 1988, he was allowed to leave the United States. As early as 1979 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II in pectore cardinal, with the public proclamation was made in 1991, the admission to the College of Cardinals as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Sisto.

Ignatius Kung Pin- Mei died on 12 March 2000 with 98 years in Stamford, Connecticut and was on the Santa Clara Mission Cemetery in Santa Clara, California, buried. Since 1993 he was a senior member of the College of Cardinals.

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