Archbishop Joseph Cheng Tsai-fa (Chen Zaifa) †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Taipei, Taiwan

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Jul 1932		Born
21 Dec 1957	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
3 Dec 1990	58.4	Appointed	Bishop of Tainan, Taiwan
2 Feb 1991	58.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tainan, Taiwan
9 Jan 2004	71.5	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Kinmen or Quemoy Islands and Matzu, Taiwan
24 Jan 2004	71.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Taipei, Taiwan
9 Nov 2007	75.3	Retired	Archbishop of Taipei, Taiwan
9 Nov 2007	75.3	Resigned	Apostolic Administrator of Kinmen or Quemoy Islands and Matzu, Taiwan
2 Sep 2022	90.1	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Taipei, Taiwan

MicroData Summary for Joseph Cheng Tsai-fa (Chen Zaifa)
(WikiData: Q1538387)
Archbishop Joseph Cheng Tsai-fa (Chen Zaifa) (born 4 Jul 1932, died 2 Sep 2022) Archbishop Emeritus of Taipei

Event Place
Birth Place Hsiamen, Vicariate Apostolic of Amoy, China
Ordained Bishop Tainan, Diocese of Tainan

a priest for 64.6 years
a bishop for 31.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Paul Ch’eng Shih-kuang †
Bishop Emeritus of Tainan
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Joseph Ti-kang †
Archbishop of Taipei
Bishop Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, S.J. †
Bishop of Hwalien

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Paul Ch’eng Shih-kuang † (1960)
Bishop Emeritus of Tainan
Thomas Cardinal Tien Ken-hsin (Tienchensing), S.V.D. † (1939)
Archbishop of Beijing [Peking]
Pope Pius XII (1917)
(Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †)
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Thomas Chung An-zu (2006)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop John Hung Shan-chuan, S.V.D. (2006)
Bishop John Baptist Lee Keh-mien (2006)
Bishop Joseph Cai Bingrui (2010)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Hsiamen, Vicariate Apostolic of Amoy, China
Ordained Bishop	Tainan, Diocese of Tainan

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 9 Nov 2007
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 126, Number 11,391
b: Bishops-In-China.com, 28 Dec 2019

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