Catholic Bishop Detained in China for 14 Years Has Died

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China had detained for more than a decade due to its feud with the Vatican.



In this 2010, file photo, protesters from the Justice & Peace Commission of The Hong Kong Catholic Diocese hold a picture of detained Bishop Shi Enxiang and a paper Cross during a demonstration outside the Chinese government liaison office in Hong Kong.

Associated Press
Feb. 6, 2015 | 7:13 a.m. EST

BEIJING (AP) — A secretly appointed Roman Catholic bishop detained by China for the past 14 years due to its feud over authority with the Vatican has died at age 94, a Roman Catholic website said Friday.

Chinese officials informed the family of Bishop Cosmas Shi Enxiang on Jan. 30 that he had died, but didn't say when or provide his relatives a cause of death, ucanews.com reported.

Shi was ordained in 1947, two years before officially atheistic China was founded. Shortly afterward, Chinese leader Mao Zedong demanded Chinese Catholics sever their links with the Vatican, churches were closed and, like scores of priests, Shi suffered long terms of imprisonment and hard labor between 1957 and 1980.

The Vatican secretly appointed Shi as bishop of the northern city of Yixian in 1982, but he was taken away again in 2001 and held at an undisclosed location.

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/02/06/catholic-bishop-detained-in-china-for-past-14-years-has-died

Requiescat in pace, brother Cosmas.

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1. Rest in peace

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