 Bishop Borgniet died of cholera on 31 July 1862.Mgr Hippolyte Adrien Languillat, Bishop of Sergiopolis and Vicar Apostolic of Zhili since September 1856, was named Vicar Apostolic of Jiangnan on 2 February 1865, and at once undertook to restore the ruins occasioned by the rebels.He went in Rome in 1867 and brought back with him religious Helpers of the Souls in Purgatory and some Carmelites.