Bishop Joseph Meng Zi Wen (Meng Jieren; Mong Zi Wen) †

Deceased

Bishop of Nanning [Nanning], China

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Mar 1904		Born
12 Apr 1935	31.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Nanning [Nanning], China
24 Feb 1984	79.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Nanning [Nanning], China
7 Jan 2007	102.8	Died	Bishop of Nanning [Nanning], China

MicroData Summary
Joseph Meng Zi Wen (Meng Jieren; Mong Zi Wen)
Bishop Joseph Meng Zi Wen (Meng Jieren; Mong Zi Wen)
(born 19 Mar 1904, died 7 Jan 2007)
Bishop of Nanning [Nanning]

Event Place
Birth Place Hengling
Ordained Bishop Church, Liuzhou
Death Place Nanning, Archdiocese of Nanning [Nanning]

a priest for 71.7 years
a bishop for 22.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Paulin-Joseph-Justin Albouy, M.E.P. †
Titular Bishop of Cidyessus
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Mathias Lu Zhengshen †
Coadjutor Bishop of Tianshui [Tsinchow]

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Mathias Lu Zhengshen † (1982)
Coadjutor Bishop of Tianshui [Tsinchow]
Bishop Bartholomew Yu Chengti (Chengdi) † (1981)
Bishop of Hanzhong [Hanchung]
Bishop Casimir Wang Milu † (1981)
Bishop of Tianshui [Tsinchow]
Bishop Peter Joseph Fan Xueyan † (1951)
Bishop of Baoding [Paoting, Ching-Yüan]
Archbishop Giuseppe Ferruccio Maurizio Rosà, O.F.M. † (1946)
Archbishop of Hankow [Hankou]
Archbishop Paul Yü Pin (Yu Bin) † (1936)
Archbishop of Nanjing [Nanking]
Archbishop Mario Zanin † (1934)
Titular Archbishop of Traianopolis in Rhodope
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1707619

Source(s):

b: Bishops-In-China.com, 24 Dec 2019
b/c2: Clandestine Episcopal Ordinations in China, Year 2018, Number 33
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Number 13,297

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