André-Jean Vérineux

André-Jean Vérineux MEP (born November 4, 1897 in Reims , † January 10, 1983 ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop and apostolic administrator in China and Taiwan.

Life

Vérineux joined the Paris Mission in 1919 , was ordained a priest on December 23, 1922, and went to China as a missionary the following year. After learning the Chinese language, he went on a mission to Manchuria and was appointed head of mission in Santaizi District, Linghai City in 1930 and Head of Mission in Heishan County, Liaoning Province in 1936. In 1938 he took over the leadership of the seminary in Xifeng and two years later also the mission leadership of the same district. In 1949 he was appointed Bishop of Yingkou by the Holy See . The episcopal ordination donated him on October 16, 1949 Auguste-Ernest-Désiré-Marie Gaspais MEP, the Bishop of Jilin ; Co- consecrator was Joseph Louis Adhémar Lapierre PME , the Bishop of Siping . Due to the worsening situation for the Catholic Church in the newly founded People's Republic of China , Vérineux could never actually exercise his office. He was detained in Mukden and expelled from the country in 1951, after which he returned to France .

From 1952 to 1973 he was Apostolic Administrator of the newly established Hualian Apostolic Prefecture in Taiwan, which was established at his own initiative. Between 1962 and 1965 he took part in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council in Rome .

Vérineux wrote an article about the indigenous people of Taiwan published in 1958 .

Publications

• Les aborigènes de Formose. In: Bulletin de la Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris 111, 1958, 2ème série, pp. 205-218.

Web links

• Entry on André-Jean Vérineux on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved December 20, 2016.
• Short biography on the Paris Mission website
• Catholic Bishops in China , Accessed December 21, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Database of Catholic Dioceses in Asia: Diocese of Hualien ( Memento of June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )