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Julius Jia Zhiguo (born 5 June 1934) is an underground bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in the People's Republic of China. Bishop Jia was ordained priest on 7 June 1980 and consecrated bishop half year later, on 19 December 1980. [1] He had been jailed for as long as 20 years, but had been released before he disappeared.
On May 21, 2021, Bishop Zhang Weizhu was arrested; the day before, seven priests and ten seminarians had been arrested. [ 2 ] On May 20, 2021 in the early afternoon, about 100 policemen from Hebei province - from Cangzhou, Hejian and Shaheqiao - surrounded the building that is used as a diocesan seminary in Shaheqiao, Hebei.
The first arrest was in 1955, when he refused to enter the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association. He was arrested again for the same reason in 1958, but he was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. He was then arrested in 1984, released in 1987, and was arrested yet again in 1990 until he was once again released in 1992. [3]
One of the first successful efforts by Cardinal Kung Foundation to notify the media about an issue regarding China came in January 1994. In January 1994, the Cardinal Kung Foundation notified the Associated Press that Bishop Su Zhi-Ming had recently been arrested after meeting with U.S. Congressman Chris Smith in early January 1994. [3]
Michael Thomas Martin OFM Conv. (born December 2, 1961) is an American Catholic prelate who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Charlotte in North Carolina since 2024. A priest of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual (O.F.M. Conv.), he previously worked as a high school teacher and administrator, a parish priest and pastor and as a ...
In 1989 he hosted the first conference of China's underground bishops at his parish church, where 10 bishops attended. [1] He was again arrested in December 1989, [5] but was released in June 1990 due to ill health. [3] He visited Italy again in 1992, where Pope John Paul II received him. [1] Zhang died on 20 March 1997 in Zhangerce Village. [1]
The Bishop of Qinghai ordained him Coadjutor Bishop of Shanghai on 27 February 1985, while the Bishop was in jail. Security police arrested him again on numerous occasions, and ransacked his flat. In 1992, the accounts of the entire Shanghai underground church were closed down, along with many of the Bishop's personal accounts, including the ...
Peter Jugis was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on March 3, 1957.He was baptized at St. Ann's Catholic Church in Charlotte in 1957 by Reverend Michael J. Begley.Jugis attended South Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte, graduating in 1975.