Joseph Kyeong Kap-ryong ( ko, 경갑룡 요셉; 11 March 1930 – 16 December 2020) was a South Korean

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bishop. Kyeong Kap-ryong was born in

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

and was ordained to the priesthood in 1962. He served as

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of ''Buffada'' and auxiliary bishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seoul The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Seoul (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Metropolitae Seulensis'', ko, 서울대교구) is a Metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church comprising the metropolitan area of Seoul, So ...

from 1977 to 1984 and as bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Daejeon The Roman Catholic Diocese of Daejeon ( la, Dioecesis Taeieonensis, Hangul: 천주교 대전교구) is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic church in South Korea. It is the diocese for Daejeon, South Korea. Augustinus Kim Jong-soo has be ...

, South Korea, from 1984 to 2005.Diocese of Daejeon
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1930 births 2020 deaths South Korean Roman Catholic bishops Roman Catholic bishops of Daejeon Roman Catholic bishops of Seoul {{Asia-RC-bishop-stub