* Birth in Guangdong (廣東), China: [26 March 1925]
* Ordained in Hong Kong: [6 July 1952]
* Arrived in Hong Kong: [22 July 1975]
* Death in Hong Kong: [23 September 2002]
* Joined the diocesan minor seminary of Ka-ying
for his secondary education: [1940]
* Entered the South China Regional Seminary at
Aberdeen, Hong Kong , to study Philosophy and Theology: [1946]
* Assigned to pastoral ministry at the Refugee
Centre at Tung Tau Tsuen: [1952]
* Sent to Rome for further studies at the
Pontifical
“Urbaniana University”, where he graduated summa cum laude as a
Doctor of Canon Law: [1956]
* Sent to the United States to gain experience
in diocesan administration, working respectively at the Chancery Office of
the
Archdiocese of New York, Boston and of Chicago.
* Sent to Taiwan to work in the Miaoli Mission
- now a Deanery of the Diocese of Hsin- chu, spending 18 years in
pastoral
ministry: [1957]
* Appointed Bishop of Hong Kong Diocese: [25
July 1975]
* Initiated preparation for a Diocesan Renewal
Movement: [1983]
* Issued a
“Statement on the Catholic Church
and the Future of Hong Kong”: [1984]
* Led a five-member delegation on a seven-day
visit to Beijing and Shanghai, at the Invitation of the National Bureau of
Religious Affairs under the State Council of China: [1985]
* Led a seven-member delegation on a ten-day
visit to Guangzhou and the eastern part of his home Province,
Guangdong, at the
invitation of the Bureau of Religious Affairs of that Province. This visit
marked the first reunion with
his 85 years old mother, after a separation of 40
years: [1986]
* Initiated a Diocesan Consultation on the
“Direction of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong for the Next Ten years”:
[1988]
* Created Cardinal: [28 June 1988]
* Issued a Pastoral Exhortation
“March into the
Bright Decade”, on the pastoral Commitment of the Catholic Diocese of
Hong Kong
for the next ten years: [1989]
* Initiated the preparatory work for the
reorganization of the Diocese: [1990]
* Announced his plan for the reorganization of
the Diocese: [1992]
* Led a seven-member delegation on a seven-day
official visit to Beijing, Wuhan and Xi’an at the invitation of the
Director of
the Religious Affairs Bureau under the State Council of the China [1994]
* Issued an Interim Report (with Proposals) on
the ten-year pastoral plan as outlined in the Pastoral Exhortation
“March
into the Bright
Decade”: [1995]
* Convoked the
“Diocesan Synod”
to meet the
pastoral needs of the Third Millennium: [1999]
* Cardinal John B. Wu promulgated the
deliberations and pastoral priorities of the Diocesan Synod. In a Pastoral
Letter
entitled “Love life, the gift of God!”, he outlined a ten-year plan for
the implementation of the top ten pastoral priorities
of the Synod: [2002]
* Was a member of the Congregation for the
Evangelization of Peoples, Pontifical Council for Social Communications
and the
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
