Paul Xiao Zejiang (; born October 1967) was a

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Catholic priest and Bishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guiyang The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guiyang/Kweyang ( la, Coeiiamen(sis), ) is an archdiocese located in the city of Guiyang in China. History * October 15, 1696: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Kweichow from the Apostolic Vicariate of Fuji ...

since 2014.

Biography

Xiao was born in

Guizhou Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to t ...

in October 1967. He was ordained a priest in 1994. In October 2006, the

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announced the decision to appoint Paul Xiao Zejiang as archbishop of the

. The episcopal ordination ceremony was held on September 8, 2007. He received his episcopal ordination with the papal mandate on September 8, 2007. The Chinese government also recognized him as the Bishop of the Diocese of Guizhou, a diocese set up illegally by the Chinese government in 1999, which corresponds to the whole of Guizhou province. On September 8, 2014, after the death of his predecessor, he became Archbishop Metropolitan of Guiyang.

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External links

Krótka biografia na ''GCatholic.org''

Profil w bazie UCAN
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