Anicetus Andrew Wang Chong-yi (26 October 1919 – 20 April 2017) was a Chinese Roman Catholic bishop. He came from a Catholic family and attended the boys' seminary of

Guiyang Guiyang; Mandarin pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, alternatively as Kweiyang is the capital of Guizhou, Guizhou province in China. It is centrally located within the province, on the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, eastern part of the Yun ...

, the capital of Ghizhou Province in southwestern China, and entered the Saint Paul seminary. Ordained priest on October 24, 1949, Wang Chong-yi worked in pastoral care in Meitan and

Zunyi Zunyi ( zh, s=遵义 , t=遵義 , p=Zūnyì) is a prefecture-level city in northern Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, situated between the provincial capital Guiyang to the south and Chongqing to the north, also bordering Sichuan to t ...

. Much later he was arrested during the

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and sentenced to nine years of

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in a forced labor camp. Only in 1979 he was allowed to work again as a pastor. Wang Chong-yi served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Guiyang, China, for the

Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) is the national organization for Catholicism in the People's Republic of China. It was established in 1957 after a group of Chinese Catholics met in Beijing with officials from the Chinese Commun ...

from 1988 until 2014. Wang Chong-yi was elected bishop of Guiyang in 1987 and was ordained as a bishop on 4 December 1988 in Beijing. The Holy See gave its approval of Wang Chong-yi being elected and ordained a Catholic bishop. On 8 September 2014, he submitted his resignation request, which

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accepted on 4 March 2015.
"Nachruf auf chinesischen Bischof Wang Chong-yi"
'', Zenit 8 May 2017, retrieved 15 May 2017 He died in 2017, aged 97Profile
, ucanews.com; accessed 27 April 2017. and was buried in the Cathedral of Guiyang.

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*http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/kwey0.htm 1919 births 2017 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in China 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in China People from Guiyang Catholic Church in Guizhou {{China-RC-bishop-stub