The
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.
In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
of Chekiang, exercised episcopal leadership over the Diocese of Chekiang of the
Anglican Church in China. The diocese, similar in extent to the present-day
Zhejiang
Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiang ...
, was originally established as part of the
Church of England
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.
The first bishop was appointed in 1908 following the resignation of
George Moule
George Evans Moule (January 28, 1828, Gillingham, Dorset – March 3, 1912, Auckland Castle) was an Anglican missionary in China and the first Anglican bishop of mid-China.
Biography
He was the second of eight sons of Henry Moule, an inventor ...
as Bishop of Mid-China.
In 1918
Tsae-seng Sing Tsae-seng Sing ( zh, t=沈載琛, w=Tsai-chʽên Shên; 1861–1940) was an Anglican bishop in China.
Sing's father (Name Romanized as Shen) was the first clergyman in Chekiang Province. He was educated at Trinity College, Ningpo and ordained in ...
,
archdeacon
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of Chekiang from 1910 to 1918, was consecrated as assistant Bishop of the diocese, becoming the first ethnic Chinese bishop in the
Anglican communion
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.
['Chinese Bishop' in ''Foreign Missions Year Book of North America, 1919'' (Foreign Missions Conference of North America, 1919), p. 30]
In 1958 the last Bishop of Chekiang,
K. H. Ting
K. H. Ting, Ting Kuang-hsun or Ding Guangxun (; 20 September 1915 – 22 November 2012), was Chairperson emeritus of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) and President emeritus of the China Christian Council, the government-approved Protesta ...
, lost his diocese when all Anglican and other Protestant Christian denominations were compulsorily merged into the
Three-Self Patriotic Movement. However, Ting remained President emeritus of the
China Christian Council
The China Christian Council (CCC; ) was founded in 1980 as an umbrella organization for all Protestant churches in the People's Republic of China with Bishop K. H. Ting as its president. It works to provide theological education and the publica ...
until his death in 2012.
List of Bishops of Chekiang
See also
References
*F. L. Cross, ed., ''The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church'' (Oxford University Press, 1957)
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Chekiang
Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiangs ...
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