CHINESE BISHOP TUAN IN-MIN DIES AT AGE 92

VATICAN CITY, JAN 12, 2001 (VIS) - On January 10, Bishop Matthias Tuan In-min of Wanxian, People's Republic of China, died at the age of 92, according to a communique made public today.

The late prelate studied theology in Rome. He was ordained a priest in 1937 and consecrated a bishop in 1949.

After long years of suffering for the faith, says the communique, he returned to the episcopal ministry in his diocese of Wanxian. In April 1998, the Holy Father, in the hope of expressing his spiritual closeness to the Catholic Church in China and of showing a concrete sign of his regard for the Chinese people, named him as a member of the Special Assembly for Asia of the Synod of Bishops, although the Chinese government prevented him visiting Rome.

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