John Baptist Choi Deok-hong

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John Baptist Choi Deok-hong (Korean: 최덕홍 요한; * July 7, 1902 in Taiku ; † June 8, 1957 ) was a Korean Roman Catholic Bishop and Apostolic Vicar .

Life

On May 29, 1926, Choi was ordained a priest for the Vicariate Apostolic Taiku . Pius XII. appointed him on December 9, 1948 Vicar Apostolic of Taiku and Titular Bishop of Anthedon . On January 30, 1949, Paul Marie Kinam Ro , Vicar Apostolic of the Bishop of Seoul , ordained him bishop with the assistance of Adrien-Jean Larribeau , former Vicar Apostolic of Seoul, and Jean-Germain Mousset , former Vicar Apostolic of Taiku.

His motto was Caritas et Omnia .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bishop John Baptist Choi Deok-hong (Choe, Tchoi). Catholic-Hierarchy, accessed March 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Archdiocese of Daegu 대구, South Korea. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Choi is the family name here, John Baptist Deok-hong is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Choi, John Baptist Deok-hong
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Korean Roman Catholic Bishop and Vicar Apostolic
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Taiku
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1957