| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency, The Most Reverend |
| Dominic Tang Yee-ming | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | SJ |
| Archbishop of Canton | |
| Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
| Province: | Canton |
| See: | Canton |
| Predecessor: | Antoine-Pierre-Jean Fourquet |
| Ordination: | 31 May 1941 |
| Consecration: | 13 February 1951 |
| Consecrated By: | Gustave-Joseph Deswazières |
| Motto: | Latin: Ut omnes unum sint (English: That they all may be one) |
| Birth Date: | 13 May 1908 |
| Birth Place: | British Hong Kong |
| Death Place: | Stamford, Connecticut, United States |
| Buried: | Santa Clara Mission Cemetery, Santa Clara, California, United States |
| Nationality: | Chinese |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
| Coat Of Arms: | Coat of arms of Dominic Tang Yee Ming.svg |
| Dominic Tang Yee-ming | |
| Dipstyle: | His Excellency The Most Reverend |
| Offstyle: | Your Excellency |
| Relstyle: | Bishop |
Dominic Tang Yee-ming (Simplified Chinese: 邓以明; Traditional Chinese: 鄧以明; Pinyin: Dèng Yǐmíng; Wade-Giles: Teng I-ming; May 13, 1908 – June 27, 1995) was a Chinese Jesuit priest. Appointed Bishop in 1951 and later archbishop of Canton, he spent twenty-two years in jail for his loyalty to the Catholic Church and died in exile in the United States.
He was born in Hong Kong and decided to enter the Jesuit novitiate in Spain in August 1930. Back in China, he studied Catholicism in Shanghai. He was ordained as a priest at the age of 33 on 31 May 1941[1] during World War II. After his ordination he worked as a parish priest, principal of a primary school and did social welfare work in the Ecclesiastical Province of Guangzhou.[1] Pope Pius XII appointed him on 1 October 1950 as Apostolic Administrator of Canton (Guangzhou), and on 13 February 1951 he was ordained titular bishop of Elateia by Bishop Gustave Deswaziere, who said of him: "By accepting the appointment from the Holy See in these difficult times, the new bishop was showing absolute obedience and a spirit of sacrifice."[1]
Archbishop Tang was arrested on February 5, 1958. The People's Republic of China charged him as "the most faithful running-dog of the reactionary Vatican." He remained in jail for 22 years in Laogai prison because he refused to sever contact with the Pope, as the government ordered him to. His sudden release (on June 2, 1980) [2] was due to a developing cancer, he then was given permission to leave the People's Republic of China for a cancer operation in Hong Kong.[3]
Archbishop Tang was never brought to trial, and therefore, was never convicted of any crime. After his release, he never showed any bitterness for his 22 years of imprisonment, even though no apology was ever given by the Chinese government.
On 26 May 1981, at the age of 73, he was appointed Archbishop of Canton (Guangzhou), which was rejected by China at once. In 1987, he released his book How Inscrutable His Ways! In it he summarized his attitudes while incarcerated for 22 years:
He died in Stamford, Connecticut at the age of 87 and was buried at Mission Santa Clara de Asís in Santa Clara, California.