Rome, Italy, Dec 12, 2011 / 12:16 pm
Over 3,000 people attended the funeral of beloved 79-year-old Bishop Antonio Changfeng Zong of China, who died on Nov. 22 after struggling with a long illness.
The Nov. 29 funeral Mass drew three bishops and forty priests among the thousands who commemorated the life of Bishop Zong, leader of the Kaifeng diocese in northwest China.
Bishop Zong was born into a devout Catholic family in the city of Xingping in the Diocese of Zhouzhi on September 13, 1932.
At the age of 12 he entered St. John’s Seminary in Wugong Puji and later studied philosophy and theology at the seminary of Fengxiang and Xi’an.