The Right Reverend The Right Reverend (abbreviated The Rt Revd, The Rt Rev'd, The Rt Rev.) is a style (manner of address), style applied to certain religion, religious figures. Overview *In the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholicism in the United Kingdom, ...

John Chang Yik (November 20, 1933,

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ...

– August 5, 2020,

Chuncheon Chuncheon (; ; formerly romanized as Chunchŏn; literally ''spring river'') is the capital of Gangwon Province in South Korea. The city lies in the north of the county, located in a basin formed by the Soyang River and Han River. There are some ...

) was the Bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Chunchon The Diocese of Chunchon (also romanized ''Chuncheon'' and ''Ch’unch’on'', la, Dioecesis Chuncheonensis) is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in South Korea. A suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolit ...

, South Korea. The son of

Chang Myon Chang Myon (hangul: 장면; hanja: 張勉; August28, 1899June4, 1966) was a South Korean statesman, educator, diplomat, journalist and social activist as well as a Roman Catholic youth activist. He was the only prime minister of the parliamenta ...

, he was born as Chang Yik. On 30 March 1963, aged 29, he was ordained a parish priest. On 11 November 1994, aged 61, he was appointed as Bishop of Chuncheon and ordained a month later. His consecrators were:

Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan Stephen (often rendered as Latin Stephanus) Kim Sou-hwan (; May 8, 1922 – February 16, 2009) was a Cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the former archbishop of Seoul, South Korea. Having been an iconic figure in ...

, Archbishop Victorinus Youn Kong-hi and

Nicolas Cardinal Cheong Jin-suk Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk (; 7 December 1931 – 27 April 2021) was a South Korean Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Seoul from 1998 until he retired in 2012. He was previously Bishop of Cheongju from 1970 to ...

. He was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Hamhung in North Korea in 2006; he retired from both posts in 2010.

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Biodata at Catholic Hierarchy website
1933 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in South Korea 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in South Korea South Korean Roman Catholic bishops People from Seoul Indong Jang clan Roman Catholic bishops of Hamhung Roman Catholic bishops of Chunchon {{SouthKorea-RC-archbishop-stub