Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
James Su Zhi-min | |
Bishop of Baoding | |
Archdiocese: | Beijing |
Diocese: | Baoding |
Appointed: | 21 December 1995 |
Predecessor: | Peter Joseph Fan Xueyan |
Successor: | Incumbent |
Ordination: | 12 April 1981 |
Consecration: | 2 May 1993 |
Consecrated By: | Bishop Peter Liu Guandong |
Birth Date: | 10 July 1932 |
Nationality: | Chinese |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
James Su Zhi-min is a Chinese Catholic prelate who has served as de jure Bishop of Baoding since 1995.[1] [2] He was forcibly disappeared in 1997.
James was born on 10 July 1932. He was ordained a priest on 12 April 1981.
James was selected as Auxiliary Bishop of Baoding in 1988. He was selected as Coadjutor Bishop of Baoding and consecrated as bishop on 2 May 1993 by Bishop Peter Liu Guandong. On 21 December 1995, he was appointed Bishop of Baoding. He was a member of the underground Chinese Catholic community, which rejects the government's Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.
Following an illicit pilgrimage, Su was imprisoned by the Chinese government in 1997,[3] and his location had remained unknown until November 15, 2003, when he was seen in a Baoding hospital. He has since disappeared from public view once more.[4]