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.

Francis Hsu

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

Francis Hsu died in Hong Kong on 23 May 1973 from a heart attack.

Francis Hsu

See also

Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong

References

External links

His Biography by the Catholic Church

1920 births

1973 deaths

20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in China

Roman Catholic bishops of Hong Kong

Converts to Roman Catholicism from Methodism

Hong Kong Roman Catholic bishops

People from Shanghai

St. John's University, Shanghai alumni

Alumni of Merton College, Oxford