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Chinese Catholics mourn death of senior bishop

www.chinanews.cn 2007-04-21 18:43:05

(Source; Xinhua)

BEIJING, April 21 - Beijing's southern Catholic church hosted a large
crowd at mass on Saturday as many people came to mourn for Fu Tieshan,
the country's most senior bishop, who died on Friday.
Fu, chairman of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA), acting
chairman of the Bishops Conference of Catholic Church of China (BCCCC)
and bishop of the Beijing Catholic Diocese, died aged of 76.
Bishops, clergy and Catholics from around China expressed their
condolences.
"The bishop was a person of great virtue and prestige. He performed his
duties with honor and devoted his life to preaching the gospel in China
with a patriotic heart," said CPCA vice chairman Liu Bainian.
Fu was born in Qingyuan County, north China's Hebei Province, in November
1931. He studied philosophy and theology in Beijing's monasteries and
became the first ordained and consecrated bishop after China began the
reform and opening-up policies.
"He insisted on independence and self-governance for Catholic churches,
which greatly boosted the development of Catholicism in China," Liu said.
His association and the BCCCC had informed all dioceses to hold memorial
masses and arranged a funeral ceremony on April 27, but Liu said the
venue was yet to be decided.
Zhang Tianlu, a priest from Beijing's southern Catholic church, said
priests of the Beijing diocese all had a deep affection for Bishop Fu and
and his death was a hard blow to local evangelism.
"But our faith will drive us to transform grief into power, which will
enable us to follow in his footsteps," Zhang said.
Fu was also vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the 10th National
People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, and a Standing
Committee member of the eighth and ninth NPCs.
In a statement released after Fu's death on Friday, the Communist Party
of China (CPC) called Fu a distinguished patriotic religious leader, a
well-known social activist and a close friend of the CPC.

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