Aloysius Jin Luxian (; June 20, 1916 – April 27, 2013) was a

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bishop of the

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Bishop Aloysius Jin was born in Shanghai into a family that had been Catholic for generations. He was orphaned as a youth, losing his mother when he was 10 and his father when he was 14. He attended Catholic schools and in 1938, at the age of 22, he entered the

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, subsequently being ordained in 1946. He studied in France, Germany and Italy, before returning to China in 1951. He was arrested with hundreds of priests and laity in the “September 8 Incident” in 1955, a major crackdown against the “counterrevolutionary clique” of

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of Shanghai. He was subsequently released from prison in 1982 and became the founding rector of the Sheshan Major Seminary, outside of

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. Bishop Jin was ordained auxiliary bishop without

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approval in 1985, and became diocesan bishop of Shanghai in 1988 to his death in 2013. In 2005, the Holy See eventually recognized him as Apostolic Administrator to bishop Msgr.

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