The Third Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong, Monsignor Francis Hsu was born in a Methodist family in Shanghai. Joining the Catholic Church while teaching at a National Central University in Nanking between 1944 and 1947, he studied at University of St. John in Shanghai and was awarded a master of arts from Merton College, Oxford University, England.
Hsu escaped to Hong Kong in 1950, after the Kuomintang left mainland China. Ordained to the priesthood in Rome at 39 years of age on March 14, 1959, Hsu served as the editor of "Kung Kao Po", a Catholic newspaper in Hong Kong, from 1959 till 1965.
On July 1, 1967, Father Francis was appointed Auxiliary Bishop for the Diocese of Hong Kong by Pope Paul VI, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Orrea on the following October 7, from Bishop Lorenzo Bianchi PIME., assisted by Archbishop Stanislaus Lokuang and Bishop Petrus Pao-Zin Tou.
Following the resignation of the named Monsignor Bianchi, Hsu was named as his successor on May 29, 1969, becoming thus the Third Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong.
Bishop Hsu died suddenly in the afternoon of Wednesday, May 23, 1973, of heart disease, aged 53.
His body was transported from the Queen Mary Hospital to Caritas House and lay in a glass-covered coffin in Caritas Hall from 11 am., on Friday, May 25, till it was brought to the Cathedral for the Requiem Mass at 2.30 pm., on the following day.
The Bishop's body was robed in Mass vestments and miter. Many of those who passed through the hall were startled to see how small the figure in the coffin was. In life, Bishop Hsu's vitality distracted notice from his bodily frailness.
By 1 pm., on Saturday, the Cathedral was nearly full. Long before the time of Mass, there was no room left, and later arrivals gathered outside the Church. The centre walk was kept free, but the aisles and transepts were packed, in spite of the great heat.
At the end of the Requiem Mass, Bishop Hsu was buried at St. Michael's Cemetery, Happy Valley, where following exhumation, his remains were placed at the back wall of the cemetery chapel in plot O-98G - 8981A. In 2009, his remains, along with those of the other Hong Kong Ordinaries buried at St. Michael's, were transferred to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and re-interred in a specially constructed crypt on the initiative of Cardinal Joseph Zen.
Hsu escaped to Hong Kong in 1950, after the Kuomintang left mainland China. Ordained to the priesthood in Rome at 39 years of age on March 14, 1959, Hsu served as the editor of "Kung Kao Po", a Catholic newspaper in Hong Kong, from 1959 till 1965.
On July 1, 1967, Father Francis was appointed Auxiliary Bishop for the Diocese of Hong Kong by Pope Paul VI, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Orrea on the following October 7, from Bishop Lorenzo Bianchi PIME., assisted by Archbishop Stanislaus Lokuang and Bishop Petrus Pao-Zin Tou.
Following the resignation of the named Monsignor Bianchi, Hsu was named as his successor on May 29, 1969, becoming thus the Third Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong.
Bishop Hsu died suddenly in the afternoon of Wednesday, May 23, 1973, of heart disease, aged 53.
His body was transported from the Queen Mary Hospital to Caritas House and lay in a glass-covered coffin in Caritas Hall from 11 am., on Friday, May 25, till it was brought to the Cathedral for the Requiem Mass at 2.30 pm., on the following day.
The Bishop's body was robed in Mass vestments and miter. Many of those who passed through the hall were startled to see how small the figure in the coffin was. In life, Bishop Hsu's vitality distracted notice from his bodily frailness.
By 1 pm., on Saturday, the Cathedral was nearly full. Long before the time of Mass, there was no room left, and later arrivals gathered outside the Church. The centre walk was kept free, but the aisles and transepts were packed, in spite of the great heat.
At the end of the Requiem Mass, Bishop Hsu was buried at St. Michael's Cemetery, Happy Valley, where following exhumation, his remains were placed at the back wall of the cemetery chapel in plot O-98G - 8981A. In 2009, his remains, along with those of the other Hong Kong Ordinaries buried at St. Michael's, were transferred to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and re-interred in a specially constructed crypt on the initiative of Cardinal Joseph Zen.
The Third Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong, Monsignor Francis Hsu was born in a Methodist family in Shanghai. Joining the Catholic Church while teaching at a National Central University in Nanking between 1944 and 1947, he studied at University of St. John in Shanghai and was awarded a master of arts from Merton College, Oxford University, England.
Hsu escaped to Hong Kong in 1950, after the Kuomintang left mainland China. Ordained to the priesthood in Rome at 39 years of age on March 14, 1959, Hsu served as the editor of "Kung Kao Po", a Catholic newspaper in Hong Kong, from 1959 till 1965.
On July 1, 1967, Father Francis was appointed Auxiliary Bishop for the Diocese of Hong Kong by Pope Paul VI, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Orrea on the following October 7, from Bishop Lorenzo Bianchi PIME., assisted by Archbishop Stanislaus Lokuang and Bishop Petrus Pao-Zin Tou.
Following the resignation of the named Monsignor Bianchi, Hsu was named as his successor on May 29, 1969, becoming thus the Third Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong.
Bishop Hsu died suddenly in the afternoon of Wednesday, May 23, 1973, of heart disease, aged 53.
His body was transported from the Queen Mary Hospital to Caritas House and lay in a glass-covered coffin in Caritas Hall from 11 am., on Friday, May 25, till it was brought to the Cathedral for the Requiem Mass at 2.30 pm., on the following day.
The Bishop's body was robed in Mass vestments and miter. Many of those who passed through the hall were startled to see how small the figure in the coffin was. In life, Bishop Hsu's vitality distracted notice from his bodily frailness.
By 1 pm., on Saturday, the Cathedral was nearly full. Long before the time of Mass, there was no room left, and later arrivals gathered outside the Church. The centre walk was kept free, but the aisles and transepts were packed, in spite of the great heat.
At the end of the Requiem Mass, Bishop Hsu was buried at St. Michael's Cemetery, Happy Valley, where following exhumation, his remains were placed at the back wall of the cemetery chapel in plot O-98G - 8981A. In 2009, his remains, along with those of the other Hong Kong Ordinaries buried at St. Michael's, were transferred to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and re-interred in a specially constructed crypt on the initiative of Cardinal Joseph Zen.
Hsu escaped to Hong Kong in 1950, after the Kuomintang left mainland China. Ordained to the priesthood in Rome at 39 years of age on March 14, 1959, Hsu served as the editor of "Kung Kao Po", a Catholic newspaper in Hong Kong, from 1959 till 1965.
On July 1, 1967, Father Francis was appointed Auxiliary Bishop for the Diocese of Hong Kong by Pope Paul VI, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Orrea on the following October 7, from Bishop Lorenzo Bianchi PIME., assisted by Archbishop Stanislaus Lokuang and Bishop Petrus Pao-Zin Tou.
Following the resignation of the named Monsignor Bianchi, Hsu was named as his successor on May 29, 1969, becoming thus the Third Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong.
Bishop Hsu died suddenly in the afternoon of Wednesday, May 23, 1973, of heart disease, aged 53.
His body was transported from the Queen Mary Hospital to Caritas House and lay in a glass-covered coffin in Caritas Hall from 11 am., on Friday, May 25, till it was brought to the Cathedral for the Requiem Mass at 2.30 pm., on the following day.
The Bishop's body was robed in Mass vestments and miter. Many of those who passed through the hall were startled to see how small the figure in the coffin was. In life, Bishop Hsu's vitality distracted notice from his bodily frailness.
By 1 pm., on Saturday, the Cathedral was nearly full. Long before the time of Mass, there was no room left, and later arrivals gathered outside the Church. The centre walk was kept free, but the aisles and transepts were packed, in spite of the great heat.
At the end of the Requiem Mass, Bishop Hsu was buried at St. Michael's Cemetery, Happy Valley, where following exhumation, his remains were placed at the back wall of the cemetery chapel in plot O-98G - 8981A. In 2009, his remains, along with those of the other Hong Kong Ordinaries buried at St. Michael's, were transferred to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and re-interred in a specially constructed crypt on the initiative of Cardinal Joseph Zen.
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