Matthias Duan Yinming
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Matthias Duan Yinming ( zh, s=段荫明, t=段蔭明; 22 February 1908 - 10 January 2001) was a Sichuanese Roman Catholic
Bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...
of the Diocese of Wanxian, China.


Biography

Duan was born in
Dachuan District Dachuan District () is a district of Dazhou in northeastern Sichuan province. In 2020, it had a population of 945,191 inhabitants residing in an area of . It was called Da County () or Daxian, until July 2013, when it renamed to Dachuan District ...
,
Dazhou Dazhou ( zh, s= 达州 , t= 達州 , p=Dázhōu , w=Ta-chou) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast corner of Sichuan province, China, bordering Shaanxi to the north and Chongqing to the east and south. As of 2020 census, Dazhou was home t ...
,
Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...
, on February 22, 1908, to a Catholic family, during the late
Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...
. He went to study at
Pontifical Urban University The Pontifical Urban University, also called the ''Urbaniana'' after its names in both Latin and Italian, is a pontifical university that was under the authority of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The university's mission is to ...
in
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in 1935. He was ordained a priest in 1938. In 1944, he was appointed president of the Shiguang Catholic Church. On June 9, 1949,
Pope Pius XII Pope Pius XII (; born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli; 2 March 18769 October 1958) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958. He is the most recent p ...
appointed Duan as bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Wanxian The Roman Catholic Diocese of Wanxian (formerly spelled Wanhsien; ; zh, t=天主教萬縣教區), also known as Diocese of Wanzhou, is a Latin Church, Latin Catholic Church, Catholic diocese located in Wanzhou, Chongqing, Wanzhou District (forme ...
. He was ordained bishop on October 18 of that same year. After the establishment of the Communist State, he successively served as director of the Sichuan Catholic Partnership, member of the China Catholic Partnership, vice-chairman of Sichuan Catholic Partnership. In 1998,
Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...
invited Duan to attend the special session of bishops in
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. He could not travel without a
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. He died on January 10, 2001.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Duan, Matthias, Yinming 1908 births 2001 deaths Sichuanese Roman Catholics Roman Catholic bishops in Sichuan Roman Catholic Diocese of Wanxian Pontifical Urban University alumni People from Dazhou 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in China