Anthony Tu Shihua
# Anthony Tu Shihua

Anthony Tu Shihua (Chinese: 塗世華; November 22, 1919 – January 4, 2017) was a bishop of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.

## Biography

Ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1944, Tu Shihua was ordained a Roman Catholic bishop without papal mandate in 1959 for the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and served as the illegitimate bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanyang.

A few months before his death, Bishop Shihua asked to be readmitted into full communion with the Pope, who welcomed him with the title of Bishop Emeritus of Puli.

Shihua died in Beijing, China on January 4, 2017, aged 98.

