Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency, The Most Reverend |
Francis Hsu Chen-Ping | |
Bishop of Hong Kong | |
Diocese: | Hong Kong |
Enthroned: | 30 November 1968 |
Ended: | 23 May 1973 |
Predecessor: | Lorenzo Bianchi |
Successor: | Peter Lei |
Ordination: | 14 March 1959 |
Consecration: | 7 October 1967 |
Consecrated By: | Lorenzo Bianchi |
Motto: | Latin: Laetus Serviam |
Birth Date: | 20 February 1920 |
Birth Place: | Shanghai, Republic of China |
Death Place: | British Hong Kong |
Buried: | Crypt at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Hong Kong |
Nationality: | Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies |
Religion: | Catholic |
Residence: | Hong Kong |
Alma Mater: | Oxford University St. John's University, Shanghai |
Coat Of Arms: | Coat of arms of Francis Hsu Chen Ping.svg |
Francis Hsu Chen-Ping | |
Dipstyle: | His Excellency The Most Reverend |
Offstyle: | Your Excellency |
Relstyle: | Bishop |
Francis Hsu Chen-Ping ; (20 February 192023 May 1973), was a Chinese clergyman. He was the third bishop, (the first ethnically-Chinese one), of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong.
Born into a Methodist family in Shanghai, Hsu joined the Catholic Church when he was teaching at a National Central University in Nanking between 1944 and 1947. He studied at St. John's University, Shanghai in 1936. He was awarded Master of Arts from Merton College, Oxford.[1]
Hsu escaped to Hong Kong in 1950 after the Kuomintang left mainland China. He was later ordained a Priest in Rome on 14 March 1959. Hsu was the editor of Kung Kao Po, a Catholic newspaper in Hong Kong, from 1959 to 1965. On 1 July 1967, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Hong Kong and Titular Bishop of Orrea. After the resignation of Lorenzo Bianchi in 1969, he was appointed bishop of Hong Kong.
Francis Hsu died in Hong Kong on 23 May 1973 from a heart attack.