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The focal point remains the 2018 joint accord on the appointment of bishops, which is up for renewal in October 2024.Carmelite nuns affiliate with Society of St. Pius X after yearlong feud with local BishopThe Chinese national flag flies in front of St Joseph's Church, also known as Wangfujing Catholic Church, in Beijing on Oct. 22, 2020, the day a secretive 2018 agreement between Beijing and the Vatican was renewed for another two years. on Sept.
China has a small but thriving Christian community. According to unofficial estimates, Chinese Catholics number around 10 million, less than Protestants. At first, the communist authorities sought to promote local leadership and autonomy among Chinese Catholics through persuasive means while acknowledging that the Holy See exercises spiritual authority over Chinese Catholics.
Bishop Peter Joseph Fan Xueyan of Baoding, after his release from prison in 1979, made the unilateral, reluctant, yet radical decision to ordain three new underground bishops in 1981 without prior consultation with the Holy See: Bishop Jia Zhiguo of Zhending diocese, Bishop Wang Milu of Tianshui diocese in Gansu province, and Bishop Zhou Shanfu of Yixian diocese.
More importantly, Pope John Paul II’s special faculty to both underground and CCPA bishops to appoint and consecrate new bishops in communion with the Holy See blurred the line between the underground and the CCPA Catholic bishops. The best-known example of Chinese bishops with dual loyalties is the late Aloysius Jin Luxian , who in an interview within 2007 said: “The Vatican thinks that I don’t work enough for the Vatican and the government thinks that I work too much for the Vatican.”
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