Type: | Bishop |
Guo Jincai | |
Vice-President of Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association | |
Appointed: | --> |
Term Start: | 9 December 2010 |
Retired: | --> |
Native Name: | 郭金才 |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Province: | Hebei |
Diocese: | Chengde |
Ordination: | 2010 |
Ordained By: | Fang Jianping |
Birth Place: | Chengde, Hebei, China |
Tomb: | --> |
Nationality: | Chinese |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
Residence: | Beijing, China |
Partner: | --> |
Alma Mater: | Hebei Provincial Catholic Theological College |
Coat Of Arms: | Coat of arms of Joseph Guo Jin Cai.svg |
Joseph Guo Jincai (; born February 1968) is a Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Chengde, China.[1] He is also vice-president of Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and China Committee on Religion and Peace.[2] [3] He was a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress.
Guo was born in Chengde, Hebei, in February 1968. He was illicitly made the Roman Catholic Bishop of Chengde in 2010 and was ordained bishop by Bishop of Tangshan Fang Jianping that year. Guo Jincai has been made a bishop of Chengde in Hebei without consent of the pope and was excommunicated latae sententiae. On December 9, 2010, he was elected vice-president of Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.[4]
On September 22, 2018, Pope Francis lifted the excommunication of Joseph Guo Jincai and other six bishops previously appointed by the Chinese government without a pontifical mandate.[5] [6]