{"id":10277,"date":"2015-08-07T10:48:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T10:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=10277"},"modified":"2015-08-07T10:48:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T10:48:47","slug":"china-set-for-first-public-ordination-of-bishop-since-2012-ucanews-com-reporter-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2015\/08\/07\/china-set-for-first-public-ordination-of-bishop-since-2012-ucanews-com-reporter-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"China set for first public ordination of bishop since 2012 &#8211; ucanews.com reporter, Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>China\u00a0July 31, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Ceremony seen as possible benchmark for state of Vatican-China relations<\/p>\n<p>When Father Joseph Zhang Yinlin is ordained bishop of Anyang in Henan province on August 4, he will become the first publicly ordained Chinese bishop in three years and the first since the Vatican and China restarted its dialogue in June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The last public ordination occurred on July 7, 2012, when Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin was installed as an auxiliary in Shanghai. Bishop Ma immediately resigned his post in protest against the government-controlled Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and remains under house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Fr Zhang will also be the first Chinese bishop to be ordained publicly since Pope Francis was elected to the papacy in March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The ordination, with papal approval, initially was planned for July 29. The diocese decided to postpone the date to Aug. 4 to coincide with the feast day of St John Vianney, the patron saint for priests.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Fr Zhang told ucanews.com that he could not confirm which bishops would preside at the ordination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sent out invitations to several bishops but cannot confirm who is attending,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of an illicit bishop not recognized by the Vatican is a way for the Communist Party to show its control of the Church. If an illicit bishop plays a role in the ordination, this could be a sign of the state of China-Vatican relations, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>At least three bishops are required to be present for an Episcopal ordination. In the case of China, at least one of the bishops present needs to be Vatican-approved.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Ma said publicly after his ordination: \u201cIt is inconvenient for me to serve the Catholic Patriotic Association.\u201d Since then, he has been under house arrest at Sheshan Seminary in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>An illicit bishop participated in the ordination.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Patriotic Association is a government-sanctioned body designed to control the Catholic Church in China.<\/p>\n<p>Fr Zhang, 44,\u00a0was elected a bishop\u00a0on April 28. He was previously approved for ordination by the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>In China, most bishop elections are arranged by the bishops\u2019 conference, which is composed of bishops who have registered with the government. However, many bishop candidates receive papal approval beforehand. Most voters support the Vatican\u2019s choice. Those who don\u2019t support the Holy See usually reflect their disagreement through abstaining.<\/p>\n<p>Church members across China also complain that government officials manipulate the election, as the process involves not only priests, but also nuns, seminarians and lay leaders, who make up half the voters.<\/p>\n<p>Another Vatican-approved candidate for bishop, Father Cosmos Ji Chengyi of Zhumadian in the same province of Henan, was also elected in April. But a date for his ordination is still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u00a0July 31, 2015 Ceremony seen as possible benchmark for state of Vatican-China relations When Father Joseph Zhang Yinlin is ordained bishop of Anyang in Henan province on August 4, he will become the first publicly ordained Chinese bishop in three years and the first since the Vatican and China restarted its dialogue in June 2014&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China set for first public ordination of bishop since 2012 - 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