Michael Yeung Ming-cheung

Michael Yeung Ming-cheung (Chinese: 楊鳴章, born 1 December 1946) is the Coadjutor Bishop of Hong Kong. He was consecrated on 30 August 2014.

Yeung Ming-cheung was born in Shanghai in 1946. He completed his primary and secondary schooling and began working for an import-export company. In 1972 at the age of 26 he entered the major seminary and studied theology and philosophy. He was ordained a priest for the diocese of Hong Kong on 10 June 1978.

After his ordination he took a variety of pastoral and administrative roles. From 1978 to 1980 he was vicar in Ha Kwai Chung District, New Territory; from 1980 to 1982 he earned a MA in social communications from Syracuse University in the United States. In 1982 he returned to Hong Kong and was appointed director of the office of Social Communications for the diocese. He held this post until 1986.^[1]

Subsequently he was appointed as parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes parish, where he served until 1989 when he was appointed chaplain at Yu C.K. Memorial College. He returned to the United States to study at Harvard University where in 1990 he earned a Master's in Education (Ed.M.). He returned to Hong Kong in 1990 and held the post of director of the office of education until 2013. He was appointed vicar general of the diocese in 2009. He was later appointed a member of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum.^[1]

On 11 July 2014, Pope Francis appointed him Titular Bishop of Mons in Numidia and named him one of three Auxiliary Bishops of Hong Kong along with Joseph Ha Chi-shing, O.F.M. and Stephen Lee Bun-sang. Bishop Yeung Ming-cheung became the coadjutor bishop of the diocese on 13 November 2016.^[2]

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