Bartholomew Yu Chengti

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Bartholomäus Yu Chengti ( Chinese  主教 余 成 悌 ) (born August 17, 1919 , † September 14, 2009 in Yuwang, Shaanxi ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Hanzhong in the central Chinese province of Shaanxi, People's Republic of China . He is considered one of the great figures of the Chinese Church.

Life

Bartholomew Yu Chengti joined at the age of 17 years the seminary and received in October 1949 - during the founding of the People's Republic of China - the ordination . A year later he was interned for the first time. In 1981 he was incardinated in the diocese of Hanzhong . In 2003 his resignation due to health reasons was granted.

He died of cancer at the age of 90.

Act

Bartholomew Yu Chengti engaged for romtreue underground church and sat down for the internal unity of the Roman Catholic Church in China one. He was bishop of the diocese of Hanzhong founded in 1887 (suffragan of the archdiocese of Xi'an ), which has been vacant since the death of the last official bishop Joseph Maggi PIME in 1963.

He was repeatedly subjected to reprisals by the authorities and was imprisoned or placed under house arrest. He always refused to join the Chinese Catholic Patriotic State Association .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Agenzia Fides: Bishop Bartholomäus YU Chengti von Hanchung died ( Memento of December 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), viewed on September 20, 2009
  2. ↑ ´Underground´ Bishop Yu of Hanzhong dies at 90
  3. ↑ "China: Confessor Bishop Dies", Vatican Radio , September 20, 2009
  4. ^ New reprisals against Catholics loyal to Rome, katolsk.no (KAP), December 11, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Yu Chengti, Bartholomew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 主教 余 成 悌
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic Bishop of Hanzhong in central China's Shaanxi Province
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1919
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2009
Place of death Yuwang, Shaanxi