Simeone Volonteri

Simeone Volonteri (Chinese: 安西满) (June 6, 1831 – December 21,1904) was an Italian missionary and a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

Map of the San-On District (Bao'an County), modern day Shenzhen and Hong Kong, created by Simeon Volonteri and published in 1866.

Life

Simeone Volonteri was born in Milan, Italy. He joined the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions in 1855. He was in Hong Kong from 1860 to February 1870. During his stay in Hong Kong, he worked extensively in Tai Wo and Ting Kok.[1] He was ordained bishop in 1874. He was Vicar Apostolic of Southern Honan (河南南境) (China) from August 28, 1882 to his death. He died in Fengqiao (冯桥), Shangqiu, in Henan province of China.[2]

Map of the San-On District

Simeone Volonteri published the "Map of the San-On District" in 1866. The map was engraved in Leipzig.[3]

See also

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong
• Palaeopolis (Lydia)

References

1. Ticozzi, Sergio (2008). "The Catholic Church in Nineteenth Century Village Life in Hong Kong" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 48: 111–149. ISSN 1991-7295. (A previous version of this paper was presented at a Seminar 'Hong Kong: its people, culture and traditions, the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. 15-16 April 1983)
2. Obituary of Simeone Volonteri
3. Dung, Kai-cheung (2012). "Chapter 5. Antiplace". Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231504225.

Further reading

• Xia, Qilong (1998). The foundation of the Catholic mission in Hong Kong, 1841-1894 (Ph.D. Thesis). The University of Hong Kong.
• Ticozzi, Sergio (2014). Mission in Central China, a short history of P.I.M.E. Institute in Henan and Shaanxi (PDF) (Thesis). Hong Kong: Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.
• Lozza, Antonio (1956). Il Pacifico Stratega, mons. Simeone Volonteri vescovo missionario. Milan: Pontificio istituto missioni estere. OCLC 799688786.

Map

• Ng, Ronald C. Y. (1969). "The San On Map of Mgr. Volonteri" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. Vol. 9: 141–148. ISSN 1991-7295.
• Hayes, James W. (1970). "The San on Map of Mgr. Volontieri" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. Vol. 10: 193–196. ISSN 1991-7295.

External links

• High-resolution digitized "Map of the San-On District"