Peter Li Hongye

Peter Li Hongye (Chinese李宏 业; born January 6, 1920 in Gongyi, † April 23, 2011 in Luoyang ) was a Roman Catholic Chinese underground bishop of Loyang (Luoyang ) in the central Chinese province of Henan.

Life

Peter Li Hongye, son of a Catholic family, came at the age of 17 years in the seminary of Kaifeng and studied theology and philosophy. He received on 22 April 1944, the ordination. Then he took a pastorate in Yanshi.

When the Communists after the Civil War in 1949 took power in China, Li was sentenced to labor camp because of his "collaboration " with the Pope and the Catholic Church in 1955 and spent large parts of it in Qinghai Province in the northeast of the Tibetan Plateau. In 1970, he was released; From the late 1980s he was under house arrest or has been harassed with " probation ".

On August 7, 1987 Peter Li Hongye was ordained to secretly underground bishop of the Diocese of Luoyang. Communist China did not recognize the bishop, however, since Li was not part of the official Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, but the unofficial Roman Catholic Church in the People 's Republic of China was one that recognizes the primacy of the Roman Pontiff over the Catholics of China and as underground church there.

He was arrested in 2001 and was under constant house arrest in the Mother of God Church in the city of Luoyang. Since 2004, he suffered from heart problems. He died of a heart attack at the age of 91 years during the celebration of the Easter Vigil liturgy in Luoyang.