Stephen Yang Xiangtai (; 3 January 1923 – 13 October 2021) was a Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a Bishop Coadjutor (1996–1999) and a Diocesan Bishop (1999–2016) of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Daming The Roman Catholic Diocese of Daming ( la, Tamimen(sis), ) is a diocese located in the city of Daming in the Ecclesiastical province of Beijing in China. History * March 11, 1935: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Daming 大名 from th ...

(Diocese of Handan by the Chinese government).

Life

Bishop Yang was born in village

Gaocun Gaocun Town () is a town and the county seat of Mayang Miao Autonomous County in Hunan, China. The town is located in the mid-northern region of the county, it was reformed to merge ''Luxikou Township'' (), Liping Township (), ''Gudapo Township'' ...

, Hunan in a Catholic family on 3 January 1923 (by the lunar calendar on 17 November 1922). He joined the theological seminary after a school and a minor seminary education and was ordained a priest on 27 August 1949 in Kaifeng. He worked as a parish priest in different locations and in the time of the Cultural Revolution was detained and imprisoned. On 30 November 1996, he was consecrated as a Coadjutor Bishop by Bishop

Peter Chen Bolu Peter Chen Bolu (23 May 1914 – November 5, 2009) was the Chinese bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Daming. Biography Chen was born in 1914. He was first ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1944. He was imprisoned and sent to a ...

and succeeded him after his resignation on 17 September 1999. He served as bishop here until his resignation in 2016. Bishop Yang was recognised by the Chinese government but never joined the Catholic Patriotic Association. Bishop Yang died on 13 October 2021 at the age of 98 in a hospital in

Handan Handan is a prefecture-level city located in the southwest of Hebei province, China. The southernmost prefecture-level city of the province, it borders Xingtai on the north, and the provinces of Shanxi on the west, Henan on the south and Shando ...

, Hebei, China.

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