Joseph Shen Bin (born 23 February 1970) is a Chinese prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as
Bishop of Shanghai and president of
Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
The Catholic Patriotic Association (), abbreviated CPA, is a state-sanctioned organization of Catholicism in the People's Republic of China. It was established in 1957 after a group of Chinese Catholics met in Beijing with officials from the C ...
. He was
Bishop of Haimen from 2010 to 2023.
Biography
Joseph Shen Bin was born into a Catholic family
[ on 23 February 1970 in Qidong, in the province of ]Jiangsu
Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its ca ...
. He studied philosophy in Sheshan, Shanghai, and in theology in Beijing,[ and he was ordained a priest on 1 November 1996.][ He worked in the diocese of Haimen as parish vicar in Sacred Heart of Jesus parish and then as vicar general of the diocese, and then as parish priest in the parish Mother of God parish.][ in the Cathedral of Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in Haimen (Nantong).]Community of Sant'Egidio
The Community of Sant'Egidio ( it, Comunità di Sant'Egidio) is a lay Catholic association dedicated to social service, founded in 1968 under the leadership of Andrea Riccardi. The group grew and in 1973 was given a home at the former Carmelit ...
in the German dioceses of Münster and Osnabrück.[ On that occasional he told an interviewer about the relationship between the Church and the government of China:][
On 4 April 2023, Shen was installed as the Bishop of Shanghai in the Cathedral of St. Ignatius][ ]Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...
named him bishop of Shanghai on 15 July 2023.[ Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal ]Pietro Parolin
Pietro Parolin OMRI (, ; born 17 January 1955) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. A cardinal since February 2014, he has served as the Vatican's Secretary of State since October 2013 and a member of the Council of Cardinal Advisers sin ...
said Francis was acceding to the government's action as a pastoral gesture for the sake of the Catholics of Shanghai and despite the fact that the government's unilateral action violated the spirit of the 2018 accord between the PRC and the Holy See. He said Francis hoped to "remedy the canonical irregularity created in Shanghai, in view of the greater good of the diocese and the fruitful exercise of the bishop’s pastoral ministry".State Administration for Religious Affairs
The State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) was an executive agency directly under the State Council of the People's Republic of China which oversaw religious affairs in the country. Originally created in 1951 as the Religious Affairs ...
of the PRC.Holy See
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.
References
External links
Bishop Joseph Shen Bin
on Catholic Hierarchy
Living people
1970 births
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in China
People from Qidong, Jiangsu
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