Peter Li Hongye

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Peter Li Hongye ( Chinese  李宏 業 ; born January 6, 1920 in Gongyi ; † April 23, 2011 in Luoyang ) was a Chinese Roman Catholic underground - bishop of the Loyang diocese (Luoyang) in the central Chinese province of Henan .

Life

Peter Li Hongye, son of a Catholic family, entered the Kaifeng Seminary at the age of 17 and studied theology and philosophy . He was ordained a priest on April 22, 1944 . He then took over a pastorate in Yanshi .

When the communists took power in China after the civil war in 1949, Li was sentenced to a labor camp in 1955 because of his “ collaboration ” with the Pope and the Catholic Church and spent large parts of it in Qinghai Province in the northeast of the Tibetan highlands. In 1970 he was released; from the late 1980s he was under house arrest or was harassed with "probation" conditions.

On August 7, 1987, Peter Li Hongye was secretly ordained Underground Bishop of Luoyang Diocese. Communist China did not recognize the bishop, however, since Li was not a member of the officially recognized Chinese Catholic-Patriotic Association , but belonged to the unofficial Roman Catholic Church in the People's Republic of China, which recognizes the primacy of the Roman pontiff over the Catholics of China and as a Underground Church exists.

In 2001, he was arrested and under permanent house arrest at the Mother of God Church in downtown Luoyang. Since 2004 he has suffered from heart problems. He died of a heart attack at the age of 91 during the mass of the Easter Vigil liturgy in Luoyang .

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SURNAME Li Hongye, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Li Hong-ye, Peter; 李宏 業 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese clergyman, Archbishop of Nanning
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Gongyi
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2011
Place of death Luoyang