Joseph Guo Jincai (; born February 1968) is a

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. He is also vice-president of Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and China Committee on Religion and Peace. He was a deputy to the

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Biography

Guo was born in

Chengde Chengde, formerly known as Jehol and Rehe, is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, situated about 225 km northeast of Beijing. It is best known as the site of the Mountain Resort, a vast imperial garden and palace formerly used by t ...

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...

, in February 1968. He became the

of Chengde in 2010 and was ordained bishop by Bishop of Tangshan Fang Jianping () that year. Guo Jincai has been made a bishop of Chengde in Hebei without consent of the pope and was excommunicated

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. On December 9, 2010, he was elected vice-president of Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association. On September 22, 2018,

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lifted the excommunication of Joseph Guo Jincai and other six bishops previously appointed by the Chinese government without a pontifical mandate.press.vatican.va
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