Stanislaus Lo Kuang

Stanislaus Lo Kuang ( Chinese 羅光 , Pinyin Luó Guāng ; born January 1, 1911 in Hengyang , Chinese Empire ; † February 28, 2004 in Taipei , Taiwan ) was a Chinese clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Taipei .

Life

Church career

Stanislaus Lo Kuang came from a Catholic family for several generations. He left China at the age of 18 and studied at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome from 1929 to 1936 , where he was ordained a priest in February 1936. In the following years he worked as a doctoral student and lecturer at the Urbaniana, earning doctorates in philosophy , theology (University of Urbaniana) and law ( Lateran University ). Since 1943 he was also an advisor to the Embassy of the Republic of China in the Vatican .

After living in Rome for more than three decades, Lo was appointed, against his own will, by the Holy See on March 21, 1961, as the first bishop of the newly established diocese of Tainan in Taiwan . As a bishop, Lo attended the sessions of the Second Vatican Council . During his tenure in Tainan, he built the Cathedral of Our Lady of China . Lo was named Archbishop of Taipei in 1966 and held that office until he retired in 1976.

His hope of being named cardinal remained unfulfilled.

Late years

In 1978, Lo was elected Rector of Fu-Jen University as the successor to Cardinal Paul Yü Pin . In addition to his administrative duties, he also gave lessons. Even after leaving office in 1992, he still gave lectures. Lo died on February 28, 2004 in a hospital in Taipei after his health deteriorated significantly in the last few years of his life . His collected writings were published while he was still alive.

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Individual evidence

↑ "On March 24, Cardinal Agagianian , Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples , summoned me and informed me that the Pope had appointed me Bishop of Tainan. I was reluctant to be appointed, but the will of the Pope was the will God I did not want to oppose, and if I had refused the election, some might have thought that I would rather continue my comfortable life in Rome than struggle in Taiwan, so although I was concerned about this news, I took it away drove to tears, the appointment. " (Quote from the Holy Spirit Study Center website )

predecessor	Office	successor
---	Bishop of Tainan 1961–1966	Paul Ch'eng Shih-kuang
Joseph Kuo Joshih	Archbishop of Taipei 1966–1978	Matthew Kia Yen-wen

personal data
SURNAME	Lo, Stanislaus Kuang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chinese clergyman, Archbishop of Taipei
DATE OF BIRTH	January 1, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hengyang
DATE OF DEATH	February 28, 2004
Place of death	Taipei

[1] "On March 24, Cardinal Agagianian , Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples , summoned me and informed me that the Pope had appointed me Bishop of Tainan. I was reluctant to be appointed, but the will of the Pope was the will God I did not want to oppose, and if I had refused the election, some might have thought that I would rather continue my comfortable life in Rome than struggle in Taiwan, so although I was concerned about this news, I took it away drove to tears, the appointment. " (Quote from the Holy Spirit Study Center website )