Thaddeus Ma Daqin

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Thaddeus Ma Daqin ( Chinese  馬達欽  /  马达钦 , Pinyin Mǎ Dáqīn ; * 1968 ) is a Chinese Roman Catholic bishop .

biography

priest

After studying at the Sheshan Theological and Philosophical Seminary , he was ordained a priest in 1994. He worked as the editor of the Guangqi Press of the Diocese of Shanghai , one of the two major Catholic publishers in China, and was pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Tangmuqiao and dean of the Pudong deanery. On December 16, 2011, he was appointed Vicar General of the Diocese of Shanghai by Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian .

bishop

coat of arms

On May 30, 2012, he was appointed Coadjutor of Shanghai by the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association . He soon received the approval of Pope Benedict XVI. for his episcopal ordination. However, in the eyes of the Vatican, the Diocese of Shanghai already had a coadjutor in the person of Mons. Jin, so that Ma was considered by the Vatican only as auxiliary bishop in Shanghai. He was ordained a bishop on July 7, 2012 in St. Ignatius Cathedral in Shanghai, in the presence of eighty-five priests and six bishops, including one not recognized by Rome. The latter did not, however, lay his hand on him in ordination.

At the end of the ceremony he said: "From the moment of my ordination [...] it is no longer appropriate for me to be a member of the Patriotic Catholic Association".. The majority of those present responded with applause, while representatives of the Chinese Communist Party and the Patriotic Catholic Association abruptly left the church.

Immediately after the ceremony, Msgr. Ma was placed under house arrest in the seminary in Sheshan and was not allowed to wear official attributes ( miter , crosier , pectoral cross ) or concelebrate mass with other priests. On December 11, 2012, the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association declared him forfeited of his episcopal office.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Between God and Fatherland" , Süddeutsche Zeitung July 17, 2012
  2. ↑ La Vie: Thaddeus Ma Daqin, l'évêque qui défie l'Église officielle de Chine
  3. ^ Liberation: Pékin et le Vatican rejouent la guerre des crosses
  4. ↑ "Under arrest, Mgr Ma Daqin is stripped of his title as Shanghai bishop" , AsiaNews.it, December 12, 2012
  5. ↑ "China bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin stripped of title" News Asia, December 11, 2012
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ma is the family name here, Thaddeus Daqin is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Ma, Thaddeus Daqin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic Bishop of Shanghai
DATE OF BIRTH 1968