Liu Bainian, or Anthony Liu, is the honorary chairman of the state-run

Catholic Patriotic Association The Catholic Patriotic Association (), abbreviated CPA, is a state-sanctioned organization of Catholicism in the People's Republic of China. It was established in 1957 after a group of Chinese Catholics met in Beijing with officials from the Chi ...

(CPA) and the Bishops Conference of the Catholic Church in China (BCCCC), the body which oversees the selection and ordination of bishops in China. Born in

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

Province, Liu was named secretary-general of the CPA in 1980, and subsequently served as vice president of the organization, which operates under the control of the

State Administration for Religious Affairs The State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) was an executive agency directly under the State Council of the People's Republic of China which oversaw religious affairs in the country. Originally created in 1951 as the Religious Affairs ...

. Liu has stated his belief that the government of the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

should appoint its own bishops, without recognizing the authority of the Holy See.Paul Wang
Patriotic Association threatens 10 episcopal ordinations without papal mandate
Asia News, 16 May 2011.

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Catholic Patriotic Association Chinese Christian religious leaders Living people 1934 births People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong {{China-politician-stub