Michael Fu Tieshan Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Bishop
Fu Tieshan
Native Name:傅铁山
Birth Date:3 November 1931
Birth Place:Qingyuan County, Hebei Province, China
Death Place:Beijing, China
Office:President of Catholic Patriotic Association
Term Start:1998
Term End:2010
Predecessor:Joseph Zong Huaide
Successor:Anthony Liu (acting)
John Fang Xingyao
Office1:Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Term:10th National People's Congress
Term Start1:2003
Term End1:2007

Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan (Simplified Chinese: 傅铁山, Traditional Chinese: 傅鐵山; November 3, 1931 – April 20, 2007) of Beijing was a top leader of the Catholic Patriotic Association.

Biography

Fu was born in Qingyuan County,Hebei province. He served as a priest, and in 1979 was made a bishop by Beijing. The appointment lacked the approval of the pope. He was appointed chairman of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association in 1998. He was acting president of the government-recognized Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church in China. He was named vice chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress, China's legislature, in 2003.

Fu died in Beijing Hospital from lung cancer. His death was announced in Beijing by the Xinhua news agency.

Anthony Liu Bainian, vice chairman of the Patriotic Association, told UCA News, an Asian church news agency, that Fu wanted to "see his priests, whom he hasn't met for a long time" due to his long illness.

He was succeeded by Joseph Li Shan.

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