Anthony Xu Ji-wei (April 2, 1934 – September 25, 2016) was a

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

bishop.

Biography

Xu was born in

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in 1934 with ancestral ties to

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and undertook seminary training from 1948 to 1958. Xu was sentenced to 5 years of hard labour in 1960. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1985. Xu Ji-wei served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Taizhou,

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from 2010 to 2016.Diocese of Linhai
/ref> Xu was provincial director of the

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and member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC.

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