illicit Chinese bishops - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:55:54 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg illicit Chinese bishops - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Illicit Chinese bishops appointed to governing bodies https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/03/08/illicit-chinese-bishops-appointed-to-governing-bodies/ Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:02:23 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=40907 Four Chinese Catholic bishops — two of them formally excommunicated — have been appointed to the National People's Congress, China's parliament, or the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. These are the two most important political structures in the People's Republic of China. The bishop named a member of the People's Congress is Bishop Huang Binzhang Read more

Illicit Chinese bishops appointed to governing bodies... Read more]]> Four Chinese Catholic bishops — two of them formally excommunicated — have been appointed to the National People's Congress, China's parliament, or the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

These are the two most important political structures in the People's Republic of China.

The bishop named a member of the People's Congress is Bishop Huang Binzhang of Shantou, who was ordained without authorisation from the Holy See in 2011 and subsequently excommunicated.

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