Francis Hsu


Francis Hsu Chen-Ping traditional Chinese: 徐誠斌; third bishop, the first ethnically-Chinese one, of a Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong.

Born into the St. John's University, Shanghai in 1936. He was awarded Master of Arts from Merton College, Oxford.

Hsu escaped to Hong Kong in 1950 after the Kuomintang left mainland China. He was later ordained a Priest in Rome on 14 March 1959. Hsu was the editor of Kung Kao Po, a Catholic newspaper in Hong Kong, from 1959 to 1965. On 1 July 1967, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Hong Kong as living as Titular Bishop of Orrea. After the resignation of Lorenzo Bianchi in 1969, he was appointed bishop of Hong Kong.

Francis Hsu died in Hong Kong on 23 May 1973 from a heart attack.