Zuckerberg met his future wife, fellow student Priscilla Chan, at a fraternity party during his sophomore year at Harvard. They began dating in 2003.[165][166]
In September 2010, Zuckerberg invited Chan, by then a medical student at the University of California,[167] to move into his rented Palo Alto house. Zuckerberg studied Mandarin in preparation for the couple's visit to China in December 2010.[168][169] On May 19, 2012, Zuckerberg and Chan married in Zuckerberg's backyard in an event that also celebrated her graduation from medical school.[170][171][172]On July 31, 2015, Zuckerberg announced that he and Chan were expecting a baby girl. He said he felt confident that the risk of miscarrying was low so far into the pregnancy, after Chan had already suffered three miscarriages.[173] On December 1, Zuckerberg announced the birth of their daughter, Maxima Chan Zuckerberg ("Max").[174][175] The couple announced on their Chinese New Year video, published on February 6, 2016, that Maxima's official Chinese name is Chen Mingyu (Chinese: 陈明宇).[176] They welcomed their second daughter, August, in August 2017.[177]
Zuckerberg has also been very active in China, and he has been a member of Tsinghua University business school's advisory board since 2014.[178]
Zuckerberg was raised Jewish but later identified as an atheist,[18][179][180] a position he has since renounced.[17] He has shown an appreciation for Buddhism.[181][182] With regard to Christianity, both Zuckerberg and his wife told Pope Francis in August 2016 "how much we admire his message of mercy and tenderness, and how he's found new ways to communicate with people of every faith around the world."[183][184][185] In December 2016, when asked "Aren't you an atheist?" in response to a Christmas Day post on Facebook, Zuckerberg responded, "No. I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important."[17] As he closed his commencement address at Harvard University in May 2017, Zuckerberg shared the Jewish prayer Mi Shebeirach, which he stated he says when he faces challenges in life.[186][187]
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