Michael Fu Tieshan
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress | |
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| In office 2003–2007 | |
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| Born | November 3, 1931 China |
Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan (
Traditional Chinese: 傅鐵山; November 3, 1931 – April 20, 2007) of Beijing was a top leader of the Catholic Patriotic Association
.
Biography
Fu was born in
Qingyuan County,Hebei
province. He served as a priest, and in 1979 was made a bishop by Beijing. The appointment lacked the approval of the pope. He was appointed chairman of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association in 1998. He was acting president of the government-recognized Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church in China. He was named vice chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress, China's legislature, in 2003.
Fu died in Beijing Hospital from
Xinhua
news agency.
UCA News
, an Asian church news agency, that Fu wanted to "see his priests, whom he hasn't met for a long time" due to his long illness.
He was succeeded by Joseph Li Shan.
References
External links
- Beijing Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan, 75, dies. Catholic News Service at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2007-05-08)
- Patriotic Church bishop critically ill. AsiaNews
- Fu Tieshan, "tragic" figure of the Chinese Patriotic Church, dies. AsiaNews
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