Aloysius Jin Luxian
Aloysius Jin Luxian SJ (Chinese金鲁贤, Pinyin lǔ Jin Xian) ( born June 20, 1916 in near Pudong, Shanghai, † April 27, 2013 in Shanghai) was a Chinese Jesuit and Bishop of Shanghai.
Life
Aloysius Jin Luxian, son of a Catholic family for several generations, was at the age of 14 years an orphan. In 1938 he joined the Congregation of the Society of Jesus and received priestly ordination in 1945. After the end of World War II, he was able to study in Innsbruck and Cologne and Rome, where he received his doctorate in dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. Back in China 1951, he was rector of the seminary in Shanghai. In 1955 he was arrested along with Ignatius Kung Pin- Mei, Bishop of Shanghai, and hundreds of other priests and committed lay Catholics. After five years of solitary confinement, he was sentenced to another 18 years in prison; overall he was interned for 27 years in various prisons and education camps and exile in the north of China. Officially, he was not released until 1982.
With the opportunities provided by Deng Xiaoping possibility of reopening of churches and seminars Aloysius Jin Luxian was commissioned in 1985 with the reopening of the seminary of Sheshan. At the same time he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Shanghai, but only with approval by the State Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and the Bishop of Shanghai used, Aloysius Zhang Jiashu, but without recognition of the Apostolic Roman Curia. 1988 Aloysius Jin Luxian was appointed official bishop of Shanghai, again without the consent of Rome. Jin Luxian was committed to the restoration of churches to make contact with foreign countries, the seminarian education and Catholic publications in Chinese. He sat strengthened foreign professors in the seminary, including Joseph Zen Ze - kiun Savio Hon Tai - SDB and Fai SDB.
2005 the reconciliation with the Roman Curia, the Apostolic Administrator for him as the Alzheimer's diseased diocesan bishop, Monsignor Joseph Fan Zhongliang, SJ, recognized. He donated Joseph Xing Wenzhi episcopal ordination as Auxiliary Bishop in Shanghai, both of Pope Benedict XVI. as well as the Chinese government has been recognized. He was considered the designated successor until he resigned in late 2011 from " personal reasons ". When his successor Thaddeus Ma Daqing was ordained with the approval of the Vatican and the Chinese authorities on 7 July 2012. This should have been made shortly after information of local Catholics in the seminary Sheshan under house arrest. Aloysius Jin supported this successor, also the official church and the underground Church to unite so as soon as possible again.
Under Bishop Aloysius Jin Shanghai has become the most flourishing diocese of China. His main concern was the evangelization and reconciliation between the Vatican and the Chinese government, a - as he said in retrospect - difficult balancing act: " I had to be a serpent and a dove at the same time. The government thinks I am too close to the Vatican, and the Vatican thinks I'm the government too close. I'm like a slippery fish, which is squeezed between government control and the demands of the Vatican. " In May 2006, German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited him.