John Baptist Wu Cheng-chung
John Baptist Cardinal Wu Cheng-chung ( Chinese 胡振 中 樞機 ) (born March 26, 1925 in Ho Hau , Guangdong , China ; † September 23, 2002 in Hong Kong ) was Bishop of Hong Kong .
Life
Shing Sing Wu and Mary Chow's son was baptized in the parish church in his home village. There he also received a basic education. He then entered the seminary of the Diocese of Kaying in 1940 . On July 6, 1952, he received by Antonio Riberi , the apostolic nuncio in China, in the cathedral of the Diocese of Hong Kong , the ordination .
Pope Paul VI appointed him Bishop of Hong Kong on April 5, 1975 to succeed Peter Lei , who died on July 23, 1974. The prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples , Agnelo Cardinal Rossi , donated him on 25 July of the same year in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception , the consecration ; Co - consecrators were Petrus Pao-Zin Tou , Bishop of Hsinchu , and Frederic Anthony Donaghy MM , Bishop in Wuchow . On the occasion of his episcopal ordination he chose the motto Veritatem in Caritate ("Truth in Love").
On March 25, 1985, at the invitation of the State Bureau of Religious Affairs , he led a five-person delegation to Beijing and Shanghai for a seven-day visit . He was the first Hong Kong bishop to visit mainland China . On January 21, 1986, at the invitation of the Bureau of Religious Affairs of the Provincial Bureau, he led a seven-person delegation on a ten-day visit to Guangzhou and the eastern part of his home province of Guangdong . This visit marked his first meeting with his 85-year-old mother after a 40-year separation.
On June 28, 1988, John Paul II accepted him as a cardinal priest with the titular church Beata Vergine Maria del Monte Carmelo a Mostacciano in the college of cardinals , making him the first cardinal from Hong Kong. He was a member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples , the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Order of the Sacraments .
After the Tian'anmen massacre in 1989, he wrote a letter to all bishops in the world on July 11, 1989, so that they could all stand up for justice , order and democracy in China.
On September 1, 1991, he issued a pastoral letter calling for the faithful to support the September 15 direct elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong - the first direct elections in Hong Kong history .
In 1999 he convened a diocesan synod to clarify the pastoral needs of the third millennium.
He died in Hong Kong on September 23, 2002 at the age of 77.
Web links
- Wu Cheng-Chung, John Baptist. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed August 9, 2016.
- Entry on John Baptist Wu Cheng-chung on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 9, 2016.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Lei |
Bishop of Hong Kong 1975–2002 |
Joseph Cardinal Zen Ze-kiun SDB |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wu, John Baptist Cheng-chung |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wu Cheng-chung, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese clergyman, Bishop of Hong Kong |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ho Hau , Guangdong |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 2002 |
| Place of death | Hong Kong |