Paul Pei Junmin
Paul Pei Junmin | |||||||
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| Metropolitan Archbishop of Shenyang | |||||||
| Church | Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, Shenyang | ||||||
| Archdiocese | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shenyang | ||||||
| Province | Liaoning | ||||||
| Installed | 2008 | ||||||
| Predecessor | Pius Jin Pei-xian | ||||||
| Orders | |||||||
| Ordination | 1992 | ||||||
| Consecration | 2006 | ||||||
| Personal details | |||||||
| Born | 2 February 1969 | ||||||
| Nationality | Chinese | ||||||
| Denomination | Roman Catholic | ||||||
| Alma mater | Shenyang Catholic Seminary St. Charles Borromeo Seminary | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 裴軍民 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 裴军民 | ||||||
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Paul Pei Junmin (Chinese: 裴军民; born 2 February 1969) is a Chinese Catholic prelate and Metropolitan Archbishop of Shenyang since 2008.[1]
Biography
[edit]Pei was born in Harqin Zuoyi Mongol Autonomous County, Liaoning in 1969, to a Catholic family. After graduating from Shenyang Catholic Seminary in 1990, he worked in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, Shenyang.
He was ordained a priest on May 31, 1992. In 1993, he went to study at the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.
He returned to China at the end of 1996 and that same year taught at Shenyang Catholic Seminary. On January 12, 2006, he was appointed coadjutor bishop of Liaoning (Shenyang) archdiocese by the Holy See and was honored pastoral post on May 7, 2006. On June 29, 2008, Bishop Pius Jin Pei-xian retired and Coadjutor Bishop Pei Junmin succeeded his position.[2] In December 2010, he was elected vice-chairman of the Bishops Conference of Catholic Church in China (BCCCC) at the Eighth National Conference of Catholic Representatives in China.
References
[edit]- ^ 沈阳教区裴军民主教到河南调研. hncatholic.com (in Chinese). 2015-11-01.
- ^ 辽宁教区：金沛献主教荣休，裴军民助理主教接任. chinacatholic.org (in Chinese). 2008-07-07.