John Chen Shi-zhong [SEP] place of death
John Chen Shi-zhong
John Chen Shi-zhong (; 26 December 1917 – 16 December 2012 in Yibin, China) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Suifu (Yibin), China.
Born in 1917 to a Chinese Catholic family and raised in Yibin, Bishop Chen was ordained to the priesthood in 1947.
Chen was imprisoned twice, first time during the 1950s and again during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. He was rehabilitated in 1981 and was named bishop in 1985. He
he studied at the National Seminary of Catholic Church in China.
He was ordained a priest on November 30, 1991. Then he was assigned to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leshan.
He accepted the episcopacy with the papal mandate on November 30, 2011. On December 16, 2012, after the death of his predecessor John Chen Shi-zhong, he became bishop of Suifu.