Simeone Volonteri () (June 6, 1831 – December 21, 1904) was an Italian missionary and a
bishop
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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.
Life
Simeone Volonteri was born in
Milan
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,
Italy
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. He joined the
Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions in 1855. He was in Hong Kong from 1860 to February 1870. During his stay in Hong Kong, he worked extensively in
Tai Wo
Tai Wo () or known as Tai Wo Market are the names of several areas in the Tai Po District, in the New Territories of Hong Kong. The boundaries changed from time to time. In present time, the name "Tai Wo" mostly refers to the area surrounding t ...
and
Ting Kok
Ting Kok is an area and a village in New Territories, the northeastern part of Hong Kong. It is located on the northern shore of Plover Cove
* Lee Ancestral Hall (). Built in the late 19th century. Not graded. There are more than 10 ancestral ...
.
[ (A previous version of this paper was presented at a Seminar 'Hong Kong: its people, culture and traditions, the Centre of Asian Studies, ]University of Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as the University of ...
. 15-16 April 1983) He was ordained bishop in 1874 by
Eustachio Zanoli. He was Vicar Apostolic of
Southern Honan () (China) from August 28, 1882 to his death. He died in
Fengqiao (),
Shangqiu
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, in
Henan
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province of China.
Map of the San-On District
Simeone Volonteri published the "Map of the San-On District" in 1866. The map was engraved in
Leipzig
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.
See also
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong (; ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church. The diocese takes its name from the Episcopal see, see city, the metropolitan area where the bishop resides.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong ...
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Palaeopolis (Lydia)
References
Further reading
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External links
High-resolution digitized "Map of the San-On District"
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19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in China
19th-century Italian cartographers
1831 births
1904 deaths
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops