About Joseph Jin Dechen
Lived 1919 – 2002 (aged 83). Joseph Jin Dechen was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Joseph Jin Dechen (; June 19, 1919 – November 21, 2002) was a Chinese Catholic priest and Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nanyang.
Biography He was ordained a priest in 1944. In 1958, he was arrested for the first time and sentenced to life in prison. He was detained in the Third Province Prison in Yu County (now Yuzhou), near Zhengzhou in Henan, and was pardoned and released in May 1992 and ordered to stay in his village Jinjiajiang, near Nanyang. He was out of weakness when he was released from prison.
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bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
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Joseph Jin Dechen was born on 19 June 1919.
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Joseph Jin Dechen died on 21 November 2002.
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Joseph Jin Dechen was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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