Francis Hsu Explained

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.

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  1. Book: Levens. R.G.C.. Merton College Register 1900-1964. 1964. Basil Blackwell. Oxford. 349.