Francis Gerard Kramer

Francis Gerard Kramer (simplified Chinese: 康济民; traditional Chinese: 康濟民; pinyin: Kāng Jìmín; 3 June 1903 – 14 January 1998) was a Dutch Catholic missionary prelate and bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lu'an from 1946 to 1982.

He was chosen as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lu'an on 11 April 1946.

[2][3] After the establishment of the Communist State in 1949, Francis Gerard Kramer and other foreign missionaries were imprisoned and deported in 1952.

Francis Gerard Kramer held on to his dream that one day the gates of China would open again and that he could return to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lu'an.

Francis Gerard Kramer eventually ended up with the young seminary professor Johannes Bluyssen, who would also succeed him after his early death in 1996.