Anicetus Andrew Wang Chong-yi (26 October 1919 – 20 April 2017) was a Chinese Roman Catholic bishop.

He came from a Catholic family and attended the boys' seminary of Guiyang, the capital of Ghizhou Province in southwestern China, and entered the Saint Paul seminary.

Anicetus Andrew Wang Chong-yi

Ordained priest on October 24, 1949, Wang Chong-yi worked in pastoral care in Meitan and Zunyi. Much later he was arrested during the Cultural Revolution and sentenced to nine years of forced labor in a forced labor camp. Only in 1979 he was allowed to work again as a pastor. Wang Chong-yi served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Guiyang, China, for the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association from 1988 until 2014.

Anicetus Andrew Wang Chong-yi

Wang Chong-yi was elected bishop of Guiyang in 1987 and was ordained as a bishop on 4 December 1988 in Beijing. The Holy See gave its approval of Wang Chong-yi being elected and ordained a Catholic bishop. On 8 September 2014, he submitted his resignation request, which Pope Francis accepted on 4 March 2015. He died in 2017, aged 97 and was buried in the Cathedral of Guiyang.

Anicetus Andrew Wang Chong-yi

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http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/kwey0.htm

1919 births

2017 deaths

20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in China

21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in China

People from Guiyang