Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei was the Catholic Bishop of Shanghai, China, from 1950 until his death in 2000. He spent 30 years in Chinese prisons for defying attempts by China's Communist government to control Catholics in the country through the government-approved Catholic Patriotic Association. At the time of his death he was the oldest member of the College of Cardinals.

The Diocese of Shanghai is a diocese of the Catholic Latin Church in the municipality of Shanghai, China. It was erected on December 13, 1933 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Shanghai by Pope Pius XI and was later elevated to the rank of a diocese on April 11, 1946, by Pope Pius XII. The diocese is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Nanking.