Anthony Tu Shihua (; November 22, 1919 – January 4, 2017) was a bishop of the

Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association The Catholic Patriotic Association (), abbreviated CPA, is a state-sanctioned organization of Catholicism in the People's Republic of China. It was established in 1957 after a group of Chinese Catholics met in Beijing with officials from the C ...

Biography

Ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1944, Tu Shihua was ordained a

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bishop without papal mandate in 1959 for the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and served as the illegitimate bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanyang. A few months before his death, Bishop Shihua asked to be readmitted into full communion with the Pope, who welcomed him with the title of Bishop Emeritus of Puli. Shihua died in

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, China on January 4, 2017, aged 98.

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