John Wu Shi-zhen (; January 19, 1921 – August 25, 2014) was a Chinese

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 ...

archbishop. Born in

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, Wu Shi-zhen was ordained a priest in 1949. On September 6, 1987, he was clandestinely consecrated as bishop, and from 1990 to 2011 was an archbishop ordinary of the

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