Taddeo Wang Yuesheng

Taddeo Wang Yuesheng (also known as Thaddeus Wang Yuesheng; (born 27 February 1966) is a Chinese prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of the Diocese of Zhengzhou since January 2024. He has been a priest since 1993.

Biography
Taddeo Wang Yuesheng was born in Zhumadian in the province of Henan on 27 February 1966. He studied philosophy and theology at the Centre South Seminary from 1987 to 1993 and was ordained a priest in Hankou on 17 October 1993. He has worked as a parish priest in Zhengzhou, since December 2011 in the District of Huiji there.

He has been president of the Henan Patriotic Association since 2011.

On 16 December 2023, Pope Francis appointed him bishop of Zhengzhou, in accordance with the procedures established by the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People's Republic of China, dated 22 September 2018. Wang Yuesheng received his episcopal consecration on 25 January 2024 in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Zhengzhou City, from Joseph Shen Bin, Bishop of Shanghai and President of the Catholic Patriotic Association, with co-consecrators Joseph Zhang Yinlin, Bishop of Jixian, and Joseph Yang Yongqiang, Bishop of Zhoucon.

In 2020 and 2023 he was elected as member of the 13th and 14th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conferences.

He was the sixth bishop consecrated in China since the Provisional Agreement of 2018 and the first since September 2021. He is the first resident bishop in Zhengzhou in over 70 years.