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Anthony Tu Shihua (Chinese: 塗世華; November 22, 1919 – January 4, 2017) was a bishop of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.

Biography

Ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1944, Tu Shihua was ordained a Roman Catholic bishop without papal mandate in 1959 for the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and served as the illegitimate bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanyang.

A few months before his death, Bishop Shihua asked to be readmitted into full communion with the Pope, who welcomed him with the title of Bishop Emeritus of Puli.

Shihua died in Beijing, China on January 4, 2017, aged 98.

Notes

1. Bishop Anthony Tu Shihua-obituary
2. "Pastoral duties of the Chinese bishops received in communion by the Pope - Vatican News". 2 February 2019.
3. Li, Elizabeth (January 5, 2017). "CHINA Illegitimate Bishop Tu Shihua, ordained in 1959, has died aged 98". AsiaNews.it. Retrieved 2017-01-07.

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