Bishop Chu Chi Zui

Bishop Chu Chi Zui (born in 1923 in China - died 1990_, he studied for the Priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church after completing university studies in law. Working in Xinjiang provence following his ordination to the priesthood, he came under the eye of Communist leaders following the 1949 peoples revolution. He joined the Loyal Chinese Catholic Church (which had separated from the Holy See) in 1950, and in 1954 was ordained a Bishop. In 1960 however, in an attempt to better relations with the Roman Catholic Church, he wrote to Rome, and was finally accepted as a Bishop in 1963. He died in 1990 at the age of 68.