Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 24 years ago |
Date of birth | August 2,1901 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Born | Shanghai |
China | |
Date of died | March 12,2000 |
Died | Stamford |
Connecticut | |
United States | |
Place of burial | Santa Clara Mission Cemetery, Santa Clara, California, United States |
Successor | Joseph Fan Zhongliang |
See | Shanghai |
Installed | 1950 |
Job | Cardinal |
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ID | 1346974 |
Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei Life story
Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei was the Catholic Bishop of Shanghai, China, from 1950 until his death in 2000. He spent 30 years in Chinese prisons for defying attempts by China's Communist government to control Catholics in the country through the government-approved Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.