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Joseph Tang Yuange ( zh, t=唐遠閣, s=唐远阁, p=Táng Yuǎngé; born November 17, 1963) is a
Sichuanese Sichuanese, Szechuanese or Szechwanese may refer to something of, from, or related to the Chinese province and region of Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jin ...
Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...
priest and Bishop of the Diocese of Chengdu since 2016.


Biography

Tang was born in
Jintang County Jintang County is a county of the City of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, China. Geography Jintang is bordered by the prefecture-level cities of Deyang to the north and east and Jianyang to the south. History In the 19th century, Jintang County wa ...
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Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...
, on November 17, 1963. From 1984 to 1988 he studied at the Sichuan Catholic Theological and Philosophical College. He was ordained a priest in 1991. He was elected Bishop of Chengdu. He accepted the episcopacy with the papal mandate on November 30, 2016.


See also

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Catholic Church in Sichuan The presence of the Catholic Church in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan and city of Chongqing dates back to 1640, when two missionaries, Lodovico Buglio and Gabriel de Magalhães, through Jesuit missions in China, entered the provin ...
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Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Chengdu The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, commonly referred to as Ping'anqiao Catholic Church, is the Roman Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Chengdu, situated on Xihuamen Street, Qingyang District, in Sichuan's capital city of Chengdu. It h ...


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