Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei
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Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei was a Chinese Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Shanghai from 1950 until his death in 2000. He spent 30 years in prison for defying attempts by the Chinese Communist Party
Kung in 1949
Pope John Paul II created 231 cardinals in nine consistories held at roughly three-year intervals. Three of those cardinals were first created in pectore, that is, without their names being announced,
Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei
…At the time of his death in exile in the United States, he was the oldest member of the College of Cardinals, to which he was secretly appointed by Pope John Paul II in 1979. Kung was born in 1901 into a Shanghai family with Catholic roots spreading back at least five generations. He would become a priest in 1930…
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) with Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo (1935–2008)
Józef Glemp (1929–2013), made a cardinal on 2 February 1983.
Francis Arinze (born 1932), made a cardinal on 25 May 1985
Henryk Gulbinowicz (1923–2020), made a cardinal on 25 May 1985