Thomas Niu Huiqing
{{Short description|Chinese Catholic priest}}
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| name = Thomas Niu Huiqing
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Thomas Niu Huiqing ({{zh|s=牛会卿|t=牛會卿|p=Niú Huìqīng}}; 18 September 1895 - 28 February 1973) was a Chinese Catholic priest and bishops of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Funing and Yanggu.
Biography
Niu was born in Xinhe County, Hebei, on September 18, 1895, during the late Qing dynasty (1644–1911). He was ordained a priest on September 30, 1923. On January 12, 1943, he was appointed Apostolic vicariate of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yanggu in Shandong, and ordained titular bishop on April 4 of that year. When Yanggu became diocese in 1946, he became its first ordained bishop. He left Yanggu during the Chinese Civil War and went to Funing in Fujian in 1948.{{cite news|url=http://www.pacilution.com/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=9236 |script-title=zh:中梵协议后的主教更迭最终尘埃落定 |work=pacilution.com |date=20 December 2018 |access-date=13 November 2019 |language=zh}} Later he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiayi in Taiwan in 1958. He died on February 28, 1973.{{cite news |title=Bishop Thomas Niu Hui-ching |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bniu.html |access-date=13 November 2019 |work=catholic-hierarchy.org/ |date=2005}}
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{{s-title|title= Apostolic vicariate of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yanggu
|years= 1943–1946}}
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{{s-title|title= Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Funing
|years= 1948–1973}}
{{s-after|after= Theodore Labrador Fraile ({{lang|zh-Hans|赵炳文}})}}
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{{s-title|title= Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiayi
|years= 1952–1969}}
{{s-after|after=Paul Ch'eng Shih-kuang}}
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