Archbishop Matthew Kia Yen-wen †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Taipei, Taiwan

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Jan 1925		Born
15 Jul 1951	26.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tainan, Taiwan
21 May 1970	45.3	Appointed	Bishop of Kiayi, Taiwan
16 Jul 1970	45.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kiayi, Taiwan
14 Dec 1974	49.9	Appointed	Bishop of Hwalien, Taiwan
15 Nov 1978	53.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Taipei, Taiwan
14 Sep 1981	56.6	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Kinmen or Quemoy Islands and Matzu, Taiwan
11 Feb 1989	64.0	Resigned	Archbishop of Taipei, Taiwan
11 Feb 1989	64.0	Resigned	Apostolic Administrator of Kinmen or Quemoy Islands and Matzu, Taiwan
22 Aug 2017	92.5	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Taipei, Taiwan

MicroData Summary for Matthew Kia Yen-wen
(WikiData: Q717969)
Archbishop Matthew Kia Yen-wen (born 17 Jan 1925, died 22 Aug 2017) Archbishop Emeritus of Taipei

Event Place
Birth Place Yuen-shi Hsiang, Prefecture Apostolic of Tingchow [Changting], China
Death Place Twalien, Diocese of Hwalien

a priest for 66.1 years
a bishop for 47.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Paul Cardinal Yü Pin (Yu Bin) †
Archbishop of Nanjing [Nanking]
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Stanislaus Lokuang †
Archbishop of Taipei
Archbishop Joseph Kuo Joshih (Guo Ruoshi), C.D.D. †
Titular Archbishop of Salamis

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Paul Cardinal Yü Pin (Yu Bin) † (1936)
Archbishop of Nanjing [Nanking]
Archbishop Mario Zanin † (1934)
Titular Archbishop of Traianopolis in Rhodope
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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:
Paul Cardinal Shan Kuo-hsi, S.J. † (1980)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Bosco Lin Chi-nan (1993)

Source(s):

d: CB, 23 Aug 2017
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 234, Necrology (back)
b: Bishops-In-China.com, 12 Jan 2020
Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 15, Number 817

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