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Cardinal Kung Foundation

Prisoners of Religious Conscience
for the
Underground Roman Catholic Church
in China

The following is a list of persons known to the Cardinal Kung Foundation to be Roman Catholics who are confined for their religious belief and religious activity. This list is by no means complete, because of the difficulties in obtaining details. Accordingly, many cases of arrest were not reported here. 

Updated: May 27, 2009

Bishops Who Died in Prison

  1. Bishop GAO Kexian 高可賢, Yantai  煙台, Shandong 山東 
    Arrested in October, 1999.  Died in jail January 24, 2005. (See news report.)  Cause of death unknown.

  2. Bishop HAN Dingxiang 韓鼎祥, Yong Nian 永年, Hebei 河北  
    Arrested on or about December 1, 1999.  (See our press release January 23, 2000)  Died in jail September 9, 2007 at the age of 71.  (See press release.)  Cause of death unknown.

Bishops In Prison

  1. Bishop JIA Zhiguo 賈治國, Bishop of Zhengding 正定, Hebei 河北 
    Arrested 13 times since January 2004.  He was last arrested shortly before Easter 2009.  His whereabouts are unknown.

  2. Bishop SHI Enxiang 師恩祥, Yixian 易縣, Hebei 河北  
    Arrested April 13, 2001.  (See our press release April 22, 2001)  His whereabouts are unknown.

  3. Bishop SU Zhimin 蘇志民, Baoding 保定, Hebei 河北
    Re-arrested October 8, 1997 after 17 months in hiding. (See our press release October 11, 1997) He has disappeared. His whereabouts are unknown.

Note: Notwithstanding the above lists, almost all underground bishops are either in jail, under house arrest, hiding with or without arrest warrants, in labor-camps, or under severe surveillance.

Priests In Prison

  1. Father HUO Junlong  霍俊龍 , Baoding 保定, Hebei 河北 
    Arrested August 6, 2004.  (See our press release August 16, 2004)

  2. Father JIANG Yanli  姜彥利, Qing Yuan County 清苑縣, Hebei 河北

  3. Father LIU Hong Geng  劉紅更,  Baoding 保定, Hebei 河北
    Arrested 2003.

  4. Father LU Genjun 鹿根君, Baoding 保定, Hebei 河北
    Arrested February 17, 2006. (See our press release February 23, 2006)

  5. Father MA Wuyong 馬武勇, Baoding 保定, Hebei 河北 
    Arrested August 6, 2004. Detained in Qing Yuan County 清苑縣 detention center.  
    (See our press release August 16, 2004)

  6. Father PANG Guangzhao 龐光照, Baoding 保定, Hebei 河北
    Arrested July 1, 2003.

  7. Father WANG Quanjun  王全軍, Baoding 保定, Hebei 河北
    Arrested 2005.

  8. Father WANG Xiongwei 王雄偉, Qing Yuan County 清苑縣, Hebei 河北

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