Bishop Leonard Hsu Ying-Fa (Xu Yingfa), O.F.M. †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Taipei, Taiwan

Titular Bishop of Abthugni

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Feb 1923		Born
29 Mar 1952	29.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor
6 Oct 1990	67.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Taipei, Taiwan
6 Oct 1990	67.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Abthugni
30 Nov 1990	67.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Abthugni
11 May 2001	78.2	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Taipei, Taiwan
2 Mar 2003	80.0	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Taipei, Taiwan

MicroData Summary
Leonard Hsu Ying-Fa (Xu Yingfa)
Bishop Leonard Hsu Ying-Fa (Xu Yingfa) O.F.M.
(born 11 Feb 1923, died 2 Mar 2003)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Taipei

Event Place
Birth Place Tung A-Shi-Pa-shengchung, Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Shantung {Scian-Ton Settentrionale}, China
Ordained Bishop Taipei, Archdiocese of Taipei

a priest for 50.9 years
a bishop for 12.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Joseph Ti-kang †
Archbishop of Taipei
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, S.J. †
Bishop of Hwalien
Bishop Lucas Liu Hsien Tang (Liu Xiantang)
Bishop of Hsinchu

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Joseph Ti-kang † (1975)
Archbishop of Taipei
Agnelo Cardinal Rossi † (1956)
Cardinal-Priest of Gran Madre di Dio
Bishop Paulo de Tarso Campos † (1935)
Bishop of Campinas
Archbishop Leopoldo Duarte e Silva † (1904)
Archbishop of São Paulo
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Baptist Tseng Chien-tsi (1998)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q11070922

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 126, Number 11,386
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 173, Necrology (back)
b: Bishops-In-China.com, 10 Jan 2020

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