10/18/1949 Tuan Yin-ming (Duan Yin-ming) Matthias
(b. in 1908; ).
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Ordained a priest on 03/27/1937 at Rome, Italy,
Consecrated a bishop on 10/18/1949 at Wan-hsien (Wan-xian) in Szu-ch'uan (Si-chuan)
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Msgr. Tuan has been Bishop of Wan-hsien (Wan-xian) in Szu-ch'uan
(Si-chuan) since 1949. He was arrested in 1966 and held in a forced
labor camp from 1966 to 1973. He lived quietly in his home town of
Mu-tou, Da-xian, Si-chuan, from 1973 to 1979. In 1980 he resumed his
duties as Patriotic Bishop of Wan-xian, where he now lives.
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HE WAS THREE TIMES A CONSECRATOR AND THREE TIMES A CO-CONSECRATOR