About Francis Tong Hui
Lived 1938 – 2016 (aged 78). Francis Tong Hui was a Chinese catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Francis Tong Hui (15 August 1933 – 27 October 2016) was a Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic bishop.
Tong Hui was born in Lintong District in 1933 and was clandestinely ordained to the priesthood on 23 December 1956.
Tong was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour in March 1965 and freed in January 1980. He was coadjutor bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yan’an from 1992 and was consecrated in 1994. He served as a diocesan bishop the same Diocese from 1999 to 2011.
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Who was Francis Tong Hui?
Chinese bishop
When was Francis Tong Hui born?
Francis Tong Hui was born on 15 August 1938 in Lintong District.
When did Francis Tong Hui die?
Francis Tong Hui died on 27 October 2016 in Taiyuan.
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Francis Tong Hui was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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Francis Tong Hui was Chinese.
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