Congregatio Discipulorum Domini

The Congregation of the Disciples of the Lord is a Catholic religious institute founded by future Cardinal Celso [Benigno Luigi Costantini|Celso Costantini], an Italian, in 1928 at Xuanhua of Hebei Province in China, with the help of the Spanish [Redemptorist missions in Sichuan|Spanish Redemptorist missionaries]. It is one of Catholic institutes to be established in Asia.
The Congregation has been based in Taiwan since 1949 after Joseph Yang and other religious members fled; the congregation fell under the direction of Archbishop Joseph Guo Jincai.