Thomas Chung An-zu is the current serving archbishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Taipei The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Taipei ( la, Archidioecesis Taipehensis) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Taiwan. Pope Pius XII erected it as the Apostolic Prefecture of Taipei on 30 December 1949. On 7 August 1952, it was eleva ...

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and Apostolic Administrator of

Kinmen Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed as a county by the Republic of China (Taiwan), off the southeastern coast of mainland China. It lies roughly east of the city of Xiamen in Fujian, from which it is separat ...

or Quemoy Islands and Matzu.

Early life

Chung was born in

Yunlin County Yunlin County ( Mandarin pinyin: ''Yúnlín Xiàn''; Taigi POJ: ''Hûn-lîm-koān''; Hakka PFS: ''Yùn-lìm-yen'') is a county in western Taiwan. Yunlin County borders the Taiwan Strait to the west, Nantou County to the east, Changhua County ...

in Taiwan on 7 August 1952.

Priesthood

On 26 December 1981, Chung was ordained a priest for the Roman Catholic diocese of Tainan,

Episcopate

Chung was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Taipei, Taiwan and Titular Bishop of

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on 31 October 2006 by

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. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 December 2006 by Archbishop Joseph Cheng Tsai-fa. He was appointed bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiayi on 24 January 2008. He was appointed Archbishop of

and Apostolic Administrator of Kinmen or Quemoy Islands and Matzu, Taiwan on 23 May 2020 by

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chung, Thomas, An-Zu Roman Catholic archbishops in Asia 1952 births Living people People from Yunlin County Bishops appointed by Pope Benedict XVI Taiwanese Roman Catholic archbishops 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Taiwan