Bosco Lin Chi-nan is a Chinese prelate of the Catholic Church who was bishop of

Tainan Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a Special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and also commonly known as the "Capital City" ...

from 2004 to 2020. He was auxiliary bishop of Kaohsiung from 1992 to 2004.

Biography

Bosco was born in

Hualien, Taiwan Hualien County (Mandarin Wade–Giles: Hua¹-lien² Hsien⁴; Pīnyīn: ''Huālián Xiàn''; Hokkien POJ: ''Hoa-lian-koān'' or ''Hoa-liân-koān''; Hakka PFS: ''Fâ-lièn-yen''; Amis: ''Kalingko'') is a county on the east coast of Taiwan. It ...

on 14 May 1943. He was ordained a Catholic priest on 6 January 1973. On 28 September 1992, Bosco was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the diocese of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and

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of Alexanum and consecrated a bishop on 2 January 1993 by Bishop

Paul Shan Kuo-hsi Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, S.J. (; 3 December 1924 – 22 August 2012) was a cardinal in the Catholic Church. He was at times the bishop of Hualien and Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and the chairman of Fu Jen Catholic University. Biography Kuo-hsi was born i ...

. He was appointed bishop of the diocese of Tainan on 24 January 2004 by

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

. His retirement was accepted on 14 November 2020. On 19 June 2021,

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named him apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Tainan, following the resignation of Bishop John Lee Juo-wang after less than six months.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lin, Bosco, Chi-nan Living people 1943 births 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Taiwan Bishops appointed by Pope John Paul II People from Pingtung County