Joseph Liu Yuanren (; 16 March 1923 - 20 April 2005) was a

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of the Diocese of Jiangsu, China. He also served as vice-president of

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from 1998 until his death in 2005. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Biography

Liu was born in Qidong,

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, on March 16, 1923, to a Catholic family. His six generations of ancestors were Catholics. After graduating from the Xilei Middle School, he was accepted to the Haimen Catholic College of Literature. He became a priest on June 3, 1953 in

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. He taught at his alma mater between 1953 and 1958. After the

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, the policy of religious freedom was implemented. In 1982 he was a

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of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception,

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. In May 1992 he was appointed as vice-president of the National Seminary of the Chinese Catholic Church. In December 1993 he had been made a bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Nanjing without consent of the

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and was excommunicated latae sententiae. In 1998 he was elected president of the Bishops Conference of the Catholic Church in China (BCCCC), president of the National Seminary of the Chinese Catholic Church and vice-president of

. In 2004 he was elected vice-president of the China Religious Peace Commission. He died on April 20, 2005.

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