José Song Sui-Wan

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Coat of arms of Bishop José Song Sui-Wan

José Song Sui-Wan SDB (born May 16, 1941 in Shanghai , † November 15, 2012 in Campinas , Brazil ) was a Brazilian religious priest of Chinese origin. He was a missionary and Roman Catholic Bishop of São Gabriel da Cachoeira in Brazil.

Life

Song Sui-Wan was one of six children in a Catholic family. His father was a professor at the Jesuit-run Catholic Aurora University of Shanghai. Song Sui-Wan attended his Jesuit college in Shanghai. In 1949 he and his family fled to what was then the British colony of Hong Kong . Here he joined the order of the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1955 , but in 1959 he moved to Brazil with his parents and siblings. He made his profession on January 31, 1962 in São Paulo and studied philosophy in Lorena from 1962 to 1966 . After studying Catholic theology at the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome , he received in the July 17, 1971 São Paulo , the ordination . He holds a license in literature, history and philosophy.

José Song Sui-Wan has worked at various schools, faculties and institutes as a teacher and professor of languages, philosophy, Salesian pedagogy, Italian, music and music theory and theology. In addition, he was pastor in various places and at times economist and vicar of the Philosophical Institute in Lorena, vicar in the novitiate São Carlos and director of the Institute of Our Lady, Help of Christians, in Cruzeiro . Most recently he was director of the São Luís Oratory in Araras from 1994 to 2002 .

Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of São Gabriel da Cachoeira in the Amazon region in Brazil on January 23, 2002 . On April 27, 2002 his predecessor Walter Ivan de Azevedo SDB donated him the episcopal ordination in Araras . Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Osasco , Ercílio Turco , and the Bishop of Lins , Irineu Danelón SDB. His motto was "Vidimus stellam eius in Oriente" (We saw his star in the east).

José Song Sui-Wan was fluent in Chinese and other local dialects, Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, French and German.

On March 4, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI. his resignation request submitted for health reasons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Falece Dom José Song Sui Wan ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Salesianos São Paulo, November 16, 2012 (Portuguese) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.salesianos.org.br
  2. ↑ "Dom José Lied Sui Wan: UM CHINÊS‚ BRASILEIRO '" , accessed on November 17, 2012 (Portuguese)

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predecessor Office successor
Walter Ivan de Azevedo SDB Bishop of São Gabriel da Cachoeira
2002–2009 		Edson Taschetto Damian
personal data
SURNAME Song, José Sui-Wan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Song Sui-Wan, José; Dom José Song Sui-Wan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian-Chinese religious, theologian and Roman Catholic bishop
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Shanghai
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 2012
Place of death Campinas , Brazil