Joseph Julian Oste (; March 28, 1893 – January 19, 1971) was a Belgian Catholic priest, missionary, and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jehol between 1948 and 1971.

Biography

Joseph Julian Oste was born in

Zele Zele () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders, around 20 km east of Ghent. The municipality only comprises the town of Zele proper. In 2021, Zele had a total population of 21,333. The total area is 33.06 km2 ...

Flemish Region The Flemish Region ( nl, Vlaams Gewest, ),; german: Flämische Region usually simply referred to as Flanders ( nl, link=no, Vlaanderen ) ; german: link=no, Flandern is one of the three regions of Belgium—alongside the Walloon Region and t ...

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, on March 28, 1893. He joined the

CICM Missionaries The CICM Missionaries officially named as the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ( la, Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae) abbreviated C.I.C.M, is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men established in ...

in 1912. He was ordained a priest on November 21, 1920. He came to China to preach in 1921. After

Louis Janssens Louis Janssens (; 24 October 1876 – 14 April 1950) was a Belgian Catholic priest, missionary, and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jehol between 1942 and 1948. Biography Louis Janssens was born in Belgium, on 24 October 1876. He was orda ...

's resignation, he was appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jehol. He was consecrated on October 28. In December 1953, the Communist government expelled him from China, he arrived in

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by a cruise ship from

Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...

and preached there for 17 years. He returned to Belgium in 1970. On January 19, 1971, he died of

leukemia Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ' ...

, aged 77.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Joseph Julian Oste 1893 births 1971 deaths People from Zele 20th-century Belgian Roman Catholic priests 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in China