Anthony Tu Shihua (; November 22, 1919 – January 4, 2017) was a bishop of the

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Biography

Ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1944, Tu Shihua was ordained a

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bishop without papal mandate in 1959 for the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and served as the illegitimate bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanyang. A few months before his death, Bishop Shihua asked to be readmitted into full communion with the Pope, who welcomed him with the title of Bishop Emeritus of Puli. Shihua died in

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, China on January 4, 2017, aged 98.

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1919 births 2017 deaths 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in China 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in China Bishops of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association People from Wuhan {{China-RC-bishop-stub