The Vatican has announced that Father Taddeo Wang Yuesheng was consecrated on January 25 as bishop of the Diocese of Zhengzhou.
The Holy See Press Office said that Pope Francis made the appointment on December 16, “within the framework of the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China.”
Zhengzhou is a city of 12.6 million in north-central China. The Chinese government expelled the previous bishop, an Italian missionary, in 1953, according to AsiaNews.