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.
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.