Anthony Tu Shihua (Chinese: 塗世華; November 22, 1919 – January 4, 2017) was a bishop of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.
Biography
editOrdained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1944, Tu Shihua was ordained a Roman Catholic bishop without papal mandate in 1959 for the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and served as the illegitimate bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanyang.[1]
A few months before his death, Bishop Shihua asked to be readmitted into full communion with the Pope, who welcomed him with the title of Bishop Emeritus of Puli. [2]
Shihua died in Beijing, China on January 4, 2017, aged 98.[3]
Notes
edit- ^ Bishop Anthony Tu Shihua-obituary
- ^ "Pastoral duties of the Chinese bishops received in communion by the Pope - Vatican News". 2 February 2019.
- ^ Li, Elizabeth (January 5, 2017). "CHINA Illegitimate Bishop Tu Shihua, ordained in 1959, has died aged 98". AsiaNews.it. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
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