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1,000 police at underground bishop’s funeral; China forbids reference to him as ‘bishop’
October 15, 2009
Twenty thousand Chinese Catholics-- watched over by 1,000 police-- attended the October 10 funeral of Bishop James Lin Xili of Wenzhou. Government officials forbade written references to the late prelate of the underground Church as a “bishop,” instead allowing the word “shepherd” as a compromise.
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