Matthew Cao Xiangde (Chinese: 曹湘德; September 1927 – 9 July 2021) was a Chinese Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Zhejiang, China.
[4] In 1950, he studied in Jiaxing St. Vincent General Monastery (嘉兴文生总修院), and transferred to Beijing St. Vincent College (北京文声学院) in 1952, and studied theology at No.
[4] Cao completed his priesthood education in the 1980s in Sheshan and was ordained a priest in 1985.
On 25 June 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.
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