Francis Savio Lu Xinping (; born 1963) is a

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Catholic priest and Archbishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nanjing The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nanjing ( la, Archidioecesis Nanchinensis) (Jiangsu) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in China. History It was erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Nanjin ...

since 2000.

Biography

Lu was born in Haimen Country,

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, in 1963. He was educated at the Sheshan Seminar at Shanghai, and was ordained a priest in 1989 by Haima's government-approved Bishop Matthew Yu Chengcai (1917–2006). He was one of the five controversial bishops in the Nantang Church in

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on 6 January 2000, expressly without a populous mandate. The chief consultant was Bishop

Joseph Liu Yuanren Joseph Liu Yuanren (; 16 March 1923 - 20 April 2005) was a Chinese Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Jiangsu, China. He also served as vice-president of Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association from 1998 until his death in 2005. He was a member o ...

. The bishop that triggered a lot of resistance from many "underground technologies" and other Catholics in China, was criticized by the Pavestolen. He became Archbishop of the

on 20 April 2005, replacing Joseph Liu Yuanren. In 2007, he contacted the

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through the Faithful Church to ask for forgiveness, and was recognized by

Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the sovereign ...

in 2008. He was elected a member of the 11th National Committee of the

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References

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