In the spring of 1900, as the Boxer Rebellion was unfolding across northern China, Ephrem Giesen was located at Xinzhuang, south of Machang, where a Catholic fortified stronghold had been established.
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He served as vicor apostolic of North Shandong from 1902 until his death in 1919 and was also made titular Bishop of Paltus in 1902.
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His first posting in China was the to the South Shanxi mission in 1894, serving there through the period of the Boxer Rebellion until his appointment as vicor apostolic of North Shandong in 1902, moving to Jinan and working with Italian missionaries based in the region.
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