Aloysius Jin Luxian

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Aloysius Jin Luxian, Shanghai, 2009

Aloysius Jin Luxian SJ ( Chinese  金魯賢 , Pinyin Jīn lǔ xián ) (born June 20, 1916 near Pudong , Shanghai , † April 27, 2013 in Shanghai) was a Chinese Jesuit and bishop of Shanghai .

Life

Aloysius Jin Luxian, son of a family that has been Catholic for several generations, was orphaned at the age of 14. In 1938 he joined the Congregation of the Jesuits in 1945 and received the priesthood . After the end of the Second World War he was able to study in Innsbruck and Cologne as well as Rome , where he received his doctorate in dogmatics at the Pontifical Gregorian University . Back in China, he became rector of the Shanghai seminary in 1951. In 1955 he was arrested along with Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei , the Bishop of Shanghai, and hundreds of other priests and committed Catholic lay people. After five years of solitary confinement, he was sentenced to an additional 18 years in prison; All in all, he was interned in various prisons and education camps and exiled in northern China for 27 years. He was officially released in 1982.

With the possibility of reopening churches and seminaries opened up by Deng Xiaoping , Aloysius Jin Luxian was entrusted with the reopening of the Sheshan seminary in 1985. At the same time, he was appointed auxiliary bishop in Shanghai , but only with recognition by the state Chinese Catholic-Patriotic Association and the installed Bishop of Shanghai, Aloysius Zhang Jiashu , but without apostolic recognition by the Roman Curia . In 1988, Aloysius Jin Luxian was appointed official bishop of Shanghai, again without Rome's consent. Jin Luxian was committed to the rehabilitation of churches, foreign contacts, seminarist training and Catholic publications in Chinese. He increasingly used foreign professors in the seminar, including Joseph Zen Ze-kiun SDB and Savio Hon Tai-Fai SDB.

In 2005 he was reconciled with the Holy See , which recognized him as Apostolic Administrator for the diocesan Bishop Joseph Fan Zhongliang SJ, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease . He donated Joseph Xing Wenzhi the episcopal ordination as auxiliary bishop in Shanghai, who was both Pope Benedict XVI. as was also recognized by the Chinese government. He was considered the designated successor until he resigned at the end of 2011 for "personal reasons". Thaddeus Ma Daqin was consecrated as his successor on July 7, 2012 with the approval of the Vatican and the Chinese authorities. According to information from local Catholics, he was said to have been placed under house arrest in Sheshan Seminary shortly afterwards. Aloysius Jin supported this successor in order to reunite the Official Church and the Underground Church as soon as possible.

Under Bishop Aloysius Jin, Shanghai has become the most prosperous diocese in China. His main concern was evangelization and reconciliation between the Vatican and the Chinese government, a difficult balancing act - as he said in retrospect: “I had to be a snake and a dove at the same time. The government thinks I am too close to the Vatican and the Vatican thinks I am too close to the government. I'm like a slippery fish squeezed between government control and the demands of the Vatican. ”In May 2006, Chancellor Angela Merkel visited him .

literature

  • Dorian Malovic: Le Pape Jaune. Perrin Editions, 2006, ISBN 2-262-01950-9 .
  • Aloysius Jin: Christ in China: Bishop Jin in conversation with Dominik Wanner and Alexa von Künsberg. Herder, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30671-6 .

Web links

Commons : Aloysius Jin Luxian  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Letter From the Bishop of Shanghai
  2. ↑ Chinese Bishop Aloysius Jin is dead - "great diplomat of God"
  3. ↑ a b c Giuseppe Nardi: “Auxiliary Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian died: 17 years in prison - what's next in the diocese of Shanghai?” , Asianews in: Katholisches - Magazin für Kirche und Kultur, accessed on April 28, 2013
  4. ^ Mgr Aloysius Jin Luxian (Profile) ( Memento from June 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), Asia News.it, 09/08/2005.
  5. ↑ “Aloysius Jin Luxian - Bishop of Shanghai” ( Memento of March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), China Center: China heute 2007, No. 4–5, pp. 153–155.
  6. ^ “Concern about the missing auxiliary bishop of Shanghai” , Vatican Radio, July 12, 2012.
  7. ↑ Tobias Brandner: Mediator between Beijing and Rome. On the death of the Bishop of Shanghai. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (international edition), May 2, 2013, p. 5.
  8. ↑ Visit to China - Merkel sets the standard for religious freedom , Der Tagesspiegel, May 23, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Jin, Aloysius Luxian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jin Luxian SJ, Aloysius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese religious, Roman Catholic Bishop of Sanghai
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH near Pudong , Shanghai
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2013
Place of death Shanghai