Francis Tong Hui

Francis Tong Hui (15 August 1933 – 27 October 2016) was a Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic bishop.

Tong Hui was born in Lintong District in 1933 and was clandestinely ordained to the priesthood in 23 December 1956.[1]

Tong was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour on March 1965 and freed on January 1980. He was coadjutor bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yan’an from 1992 and was consecrated in 1994. He served as a diocesan bishop the same Diocese from 1999 to 2011.[2]

Notes
  1. Mgr Francis Tong Hui, emeritus bishop of Yulin, dies
  2. Bishops of Yan’an
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