Matthew Cao Xiangde


Matthew Cao Xiangde is a Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Zhejiang, China.

Biography

Cao was born in 1929 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Cao completed his priesthood education in the 1980s in Sheshan and was ordained a priest in 1985.
On June 25, 2000, he became the bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hangzhou without a pontifical mandate, despite strong warnings from the Holy See in advance.