Paul Liu Jinghe
Chinese bishop (1920-2013)
Paul Liu Jinghe (Chinese: 刘景和; 26 December 1920 - 11 December 2013) was a Chinese Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Yongping from 1981 to 2010. He was also the vice-president of Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and vice-president of the Bishops Conference of the Catholic Church in China.
He was a member of the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Biography
Liu was born in Fengrun District, Tangshan, Hebei, on December 26, 1920, to a Catholic family. From 1926 to 1931 He attended the Huanghuagang Missionary School. In 1939 he was accepted to the Beijing Wensheng College, majoring in philosophy, where he graduated in 1945. On May 4, 1945, he was ordained as priest by Bishop of Beijing, Paul Leon Cornelius Montaigne, CM.
Jinghe was sent to jail in 1946 and released in March of the following year. On November 13, 1954, he was imprisoned in the Tangshan No. 1 Detention House. During the Cultural Revolution, the Communist government suppressed freedom of religious belief and Liu was re-imprisoned.
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