Thomas Tien Ken-sin

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Thomas Cardinal Tien-Ken-Sin
Cardinal coat of arms of Thomas Tien Ken-sin; Motto (lat.): Adveniat Regnum Tuum

Thomas Cardinal Tien Ken-sin SVD , also Thomas Tienchensin (chin .: 田 耕莘) (born October 24, 1890 in Chantsui , China ; † July 24, 1967 in Taipei , Taiwan ) was Archbishop of Beijing and chairman of the Catholic Fu-Jen University .

Life

Thomas Tien Ken-sin studied Catholic theology at the Seminary of Yenchowfu and received on 9 June 1918, the sacrament of Holy Orders . He then worked as a parish chaplain. In 1929 he entered the community of the Steyler missionaries .

On February 23, 1934, Pope Pius XI appointed him . to the Apostolic Prefect of Yangku. With the uprising of the prefecture, Pope Pius XII appointed him . on July 11, 1939 Titular Bishop of Ruspae and Vicar Apostolic of Yangku. The Pope personally donated his episcopal ordination on October 29 of the same year in Rome ; Co -consecrators were Archbishop Celso Costantini , secretary of the Congregation Propaganda Fide , and emeritus Vicar Apostolic of Uganda , Archbishop Heinrich Streicher MAfr . On November 10, 1942, he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Tsingtao .

On February 18, 1946, Pius XII took him. as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria in Via in the College of Cardinals and shortly thereafter, on April 11, 1946, appointed him first (and to this day only) Archbishop of Beijing . He was the first cardinal from East Asia. In 1951, Thomas Tien Ken-sin was expelled from the communist rulers of the People's Republic of China .

At the 1958 conclave , on October 28, 1958, Pope John XXIII. was elected, the two Siegburg doctors Alfred Möhlenbruch and Norbert Zylka were participants in the conclave in the Vatican . They accompanied Cardinal Thomas Tien Ken-sin, who had recently been seriously injured in a car accident on the B 56 between Bonn and Sankt Augustin - Hangelar .

He was also a participant in the conclave in 1963 , in which Pope Paul VI. was chosen. He attended the first session of the Second Vatican Council as a council father. From 1959 to 1966 he was Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Taipei .

He died on July 24, 1967 in Taipei and was buried in the local cathedral .

literature

  • Johannes Fleckner : Cardinal Tien's trip to the conclave. In: Steyler Mission Chronicle 1959. The Society of the Divine Word (SVD) reports on its missionary work all over the world. Steyler Verlagsbuchhandlung, Kaldenkirchen 1959, pp. 7-14.
  • Lothar Janek: Thomas Cardinal Tien SVD. On the 25th anniversary of his episcopal ordination. In: Steyler Mission Chronicle 1965, pp. 176–177.
  • Johannes Fleckner: Thomas Cardinal Tien. Archbishop of Beijing 1890–1967. In: Steyler Missionschronik 1968, 183–188; printed in: Johannes Fleckner: So they were. Vol. 1, St. Augustin 1991, pp. 164-175.
  • Johannes Fleckner: Thomas Cardinal Tien. In: Studia Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini 16, 1975, ISBN 3-87787-080-5 , p. 138.
  • Ernest Brandewie: The Last Shall Be First. The Life of Thomas Tien Keng-hsin, China's First Cardinal. In: Studia Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini 89, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8050-0552-4 , p. 203.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. gw: pioneer of the on-site operation. Kölner Rundschau, March 6, 2003, accessed on November 4, 2014 .
  2. ^ Anna Maria Beekes: Papal election 1958: Two doctors from Siegburg were there. Generalanzeiger Bonn, March 8, 2013, accessed on November 4, 2014 .
  3. Seriously injured cardinal cared for. District town of Siegburg, February 27, 2013, accessed on November 4, 2014 .
predecessor Office successor
Paul Leon Cornelius Montaigne CM Archbishop of Beijing
1946–1967
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