Joseph Hou Guoyang

Joseph Hou Guoyong or Guoyang was a Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a Bishop of the Archdiocese of Chongqing since 1989.

Biography

Bishop Hou Guoyong was born in 1922. Little is known regarding his personal details, but he was ordained as a priest in 1951. He was clandestinely consecrated as bishop by clandestine bishop Peter Joseph Fan Xueyan from the Diocese of Baoding on 8 October 1989 in Baoding for the Archdiocese of Chongqing.
In 2022, Catholic Hierarchy updated his profile to clarify that he is deceased, though a precise date or year is not known.