Kaying

He had been vicar‐general from 1956 to 1966. He was previously a missionary in Kaying in southern China, receiving the assignment in 1938.

1978 November 29, “Rev. John F. Donovan, A Maryknoll Vicar, 71”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2018, Section B, page 12

In 1925, the Paris society offered Maryknoll another territory in the northeast corner of Kwangtung Province, inhabited by Hakka-speaking people. Father Ford was put in charge, picking Kaying, the Hakka cultural center, as his own main base, and set about developing the area.

1990, Albert J. Nevins, American Martyrs: From 1542, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 139–141

Interestingly, Nakagawa cites a Chinese translation of Campbell that was published in 1951 by the Perak Public Association of the Hakkas and also in 1923 in Kaying, translated by a Hakka of Meixian district.

1994, Nicole Constable, “The Construction of Hakka Identity”, in Christian Souls and Chinese Spirits: A Hakka Community in Hong Kong, Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36

She sadly bade farewell to the Sisters, who were returning to Jiaying (or Meixian), Guangdong Province, from Hong Kong. With foreseeable dangers ahead of them, the Sisters prepared for the worst in China.

[2004 November, Cindy Yik-yi Chu, “Difficult Years, 1937–1951”, in The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969: In Love with the Chinese, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48

After his ordination, he was sent as a Missionary to Guangdong, China. He was appointed the first bishop of Kaying on June 18, 1935. While he was the bishop of Kaying, he built a seminary for the education of native-born Chinese priests.

2016, Landon J. DePasquale, “Ford, Francis Xavier”, in George Thomas Kurian, Mark A. Lamport, editors, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, volume 2, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 904, column 1