Paul Liu Jinghe (; 26 December 1920 - 11 December 2013) was a

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. He was also the vice-president of Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and vice-president of the Bishops Conference of the Catholic Church in China (BCCCC). He was a member of the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th National Committee of the

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Biography

Liu was born in

Fengrun District Fengrun District () is a district of the city of Tangshan, Hebei province, People's Republic of China. Administrative divisions Subdistricts: * Taiping Road Subdistrict (), Yanshan Road Subdistrict (), Gengyang Subdistrict () Towns: * Fengrun ...

, Tangshan,

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, on December 26, 1920, to a Catholic family. From 1926 to 1931 He attended the Huanghuagang Missionary School. In 1939 he was accepted to the Beijing Wensheng College, majoring in

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, where he graduated in 1945. On May 4, 1945, he was consecrated as

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by Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Beijing Paul Leon Cornelius Montaigne, C.M (). He was sent to jail in 1946 and released in March of the following year. On November 13, 1954, he was imprisoned in the Tangshan No. 1 Detention House. During the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ...

, the Communist government suppressed freedom of religious belief. Liu was re-imprisoned. In the autumn of 1970 he was sent to textile mill, quarry and coke-oven plant to reform through labour. After the

3rd Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 3rd Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was a pivotal meeting of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party held in Beijing, China, from December 18 to December 22, 1978. The conference ma ...

, a policy of some

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was implemented. On December 20, 1981, he was ordained bishop by Bishop Chang Shouyi (), John Wang Qiwei () and Pan Shaoqing (). On December 7, 1984, he founded the Hebei Catholic Seminary. He retired on November 17, 2010. On October 20, 2010, He refused to attend Joseph Guo Jincai's illegal pastoral ceremony in Chengde Diocese. Liu died on December 11, 2013.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Liu, Paul, Jinghe 1920 births 2013 deaths Politicians from Tangshan 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in China People's Republic of China politicians from Hebei 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in China