Samuel Guo Chuanzhen

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Samuel Guo Chuanzhen OFM , Chinese  郭 傳真 , Pinyin Guō Chuánzhēn , (born April 14, 1918 in Jinan ; † November 6, 2012 ibid) was auxiliary bishop in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jinan .

Life

Samuel Guo Chuanzhen entered the seminary in 1931 and studied literature, philosophy and theology. He was ordained a priest on December 8, 1944 . From 1945 he studied church history at the Catholic Furen University in Beijing, but had to finish his studies in 1949 with the establishment of the People's Republic of China and return to his diocese. He was a pastor in Zhengjuesijie and a teacher at the Minor Seminary there. With the nationwide ban on religion, he worked in the food industry from 1963. During the Cultural Revolution he was interned in a labor camp and placed under house arrest for 16 years.

Not until 1982 was he allowed to work in pastoral care and as a priest again. He was the founder and rector of the Shandong Province seminary in 1983 .

On April 24, 1988 he was appointed auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Jinan without a papal mandate , with recognition by the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association , but initially without apostolic recognition by the Roman Curia . But this took place later.

Guo suffered multiple strokes in the late 1990s and lived in the parish of the former Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Jinan .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The death of Mgr. Guo Chuanzhen: he established the diocesan Seminary where a great number of priests now operating in Shandong Province were formed. agenzia fides, November 19, 2012, accessed on December 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b "Shandong bishop dead at 94" , ucanews.com, November 7, 2012 (English)
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Guo is the family name here, Samuel Chuanzhen is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Guo, Samuel Chuanzhen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chuan-zhen, Samuel Guo, OFM; 郭 傳真 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese religious and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Jinan
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2012
Place of death Jinan