Bishop Cosmas Shi Enxiang †

Deceased

Bishop of Yixian [Yihsien], China

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Apr 1922		Born
14 Aug 1947	25.3	Ordained Priest	Priest
24 Jun 1982	60.1	Ordained Bishop	Auxiliary Bishop of Yixian [Yihsien], China
1994²	71.7	Appointed	Bishop of Yixian [Yihsien], China
Jan 2015³	92.7	Died	Bishop of Yixian [Yihsien], China

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain ; ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Cosmas Shi Enxiang
Bishop Cosmas Shi Enxiang
(born 17 Apr 1922, died Jan 2015)
Bishop of Yixian [Yihsien]

Event Place
Death Place Prison

a priest for 67.3 years
a bishop for 32.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Francis Zhou Shanfu (Zhou Fangji) †
Bishop of Yixian [Yihsien]

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Francis Zhou Shanfu (Zhou Fangji) † (1981)
Bishop of Yixian [Yihsien]
Bishop Peter Joseph Fan Xueyan † (1951)
Bishop of Baoding [Paoting, Ching-Yüan]
Archbishop Giuseppe Ferruccio Maurizio Rosà, O.F.M. † (1946)
Archbishop of Hankow [Hankou]
Archbishop Paul 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:
Bishop John Chen Cangbao (1997)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Matthias Leo Pei Xiangde (Pei Shangde), C.D.D. † (1989)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q11964129

Source(s):

b: Bishops-In-China.com, 23 Dec 2019
b/c2: Clandestine Episcopal Ordinations in China, Year 2018, Number 18
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 203, Number 16,703
ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 190, Number 15,467

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