James Su Zhi-min is a Chinese Catholic prelate who has served as ''de jure''
Bishop of Baoding since 1995.
He was
forcibly disappeared
An enforced disappearance (or forced disappearance) is the secret abduction or imprisonment of a person with the support or acquiescence of a state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate or whereabouts with the intent of placing ...
in 1997.
Biography
James was born on 10 July 1932.
He was ordained a priest on 12 April 1981.
James was selected as Auxiliary Bishop of Baoding in 1988. He was selected as Coadjutor Bishop of Baoding and consecrated as bishop on 2 May 1993 by Bishop Peter Liu Guandong. On 21 December 1995, he was appointed Bishop of Baoding.
He was a member of the underground Chinese Catholic community, which rejects the government's
Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association
The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) is the national organization for 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 Chinese Commun ...
.
Arrest and disappearance
Following an illicit pilgrimage, Su was imprisoned by the Chinese government in 1997, and his location had remained unknown until November 15, 2003, when he was seen in a Baoding hospital. He has since disappeared from public view once more.
See also
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List of people who disappeared
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References
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in China
Living people
1932 births
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