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Matthias Pei Shangde (Chinese: 裴尚德; pinyin: Péi Shàngdé; 1918 - 24 December 2001) was a Chinese Catholic prelate and Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Beijing from 1989 to 2001.

Biography

Pei was born into a Catholic family in Zhuolu County, Hebei in 1918. At the age of 13, he entered the Congregatio Discipulorum Domini, which was founded by Archbishop Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini. He was ordained a priest on May 30, 1948. In 1950, he worked at Beijing Pharmaceutical Factory. During the Cultural Revolution, he was sentenced to ten years of labor reform. He was released in 1980. In 1989 he was secretly appointed and ordained Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Beijing. When he died, he had been under house arrest since April 2001. Police ordered his funeral to be low profile, with participation only from the village where he had lived.

References

1. ^ 中国地下天主教会裴尚德主教逝世. voachinese.com (in Chinese). 29 December 2001. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
2. 河北三千教友不理公安劝阻出席教会主教裴尚德葬礼. rfaweb.org (in Chinese). 2 January 2002. Retrieved 13 November 2019.

• 1918 births
• 2001 deaths
• People from Zhuolu County
• 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in China
• Chinese Roman Catholic archbishops