Claim: Peter Joseph Fan Xueyan, born on December 29, 1907 in Siao Wang Ting, Beijing, China, was ordinated on November 22, 1934, and was consecrated on June 24, 1951 by Archbishop Giuseppe Ferruccio Maurizio Rosà, O.F.M.
Evidence: He was ordained a priest on December 22, 1934 in Rome and he shortly thereafter returned to China to work in the diocese of Baoding.