Paul Yü Pin

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Paul Cardinal Yü Pin (于斌; "Hanyu pinyin": Yu Bin) (April 13, 1901—August 16, 1978) was a Chinese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Nanking from 1946 until his death, having previously served as its Apostolic Vicar, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1969.

Biography

Paul Yü Pin was born in Hai-lun, Kirin, to Shuayuan Yu Pin and Ai-mei Siao. Orphaned at age 7, he was baptized in 1914 after encountering the missionary priests near Lansi, where he lived with his grandfather [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897553,00.html A Mission for the Archbishop] September 12, 1960] . Pin attended the Provincial Normal School in Heilongjiang, the Jesuit-run Aurora University in Shanghai, and the seminary in Kirin before going to Rome, where he studied at the Pontifical Urbaniana University (earning his doctorate in theology) and Pontifical Roman Athenaem "S. Apollinare". He also studied at the Royal University in Perugia, from where he obtained a doctoral degree in politics.

Pin was ordained to the priesthood on December 22, 1928 by Archbishop Giuseppe Palica, and then taught at the Urbaniana University until 1933, when he returned to China. Upon his return, he was named National Director of Catholic Action, secretary of the Chinese nunciature, and Inspector General of Catholic schools in China.

On July 17, 1936, Pin was appointed Apostolic Vicar of Nanking and Titular Bishop of Sozusa in Palaestina by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following September 20 from Archbishop Mario Zanin, with Bishops Simon Tchu, SJ, and Paul Montague, CM, serving as co-consecrators, in Beijing. In 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army overtook Nanking and a reward of $100,000 was placed for the capture of Pin, who spent World War II in the United States [Ibid.] . There he planned in 1943 to establish employment bureaus, available to American teachers, doctors, and technicians, in China [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,884964,00.html Employment Available] June 7, 1943] . Also that year, the Chinese cleric supported two bills before the House Immigration Committee that allowed Chinese to enter and become citizens of the United States under the quota system [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,851766,00.html 105 Chinese] June 14, 1943] . Pin, following his return to China, was promoted to the rank of a Metropolitan Archbishop when his vicariate was elevated as such by Pope Pius XII on April 11, 1946.

In 1949, the new Communist regime expelled from his see, and he was yet agan forced to leave the country, resuming his exile in the United States. During this time, the Archbishop dedicated himself to helping Chinese Americans and raising funds for refugees from Communist China in Taiwan, where he was made rector "magnifico" of Fu Jen Catholic University in 1961. Pin attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was created Cardinal Priest of "Gesù Divin Lavoratore" by Pope Paul VI in the consistory of April 28, 1969. Upon resigned as Fu Jen's rector on August 5, 1978, the Cardinal was named its Grand Chancellor. In 1976 he had become the first director of Dharma Realm Buddhist University's Institute for World Religions (now attached to Berkeley Buddhist Monastery). [ [http://www.drbu.org/research/iwr/default.asp Dharma Realm Buddhist University] ]

He died from a heart attack at age 77 in Rome, where he had gone to participate in the conclave following Pope Paul VI's death in August 1978 [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916356,00.html Milestones] August 28, 1978] . Pin is buried in the metropolitan cathedral of Taipei.

Trivia

*While studying in Rome, Pin received a doctorate in philosophy from the Angelicum [Free Church for China. [http://www.freechurchforchina.org/testimony/cardinalyupin1.htm Cardinal Yu-Pin] ] .
*President Franklin Roosevelt met with Bishop Pin in February 1944 [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,774709,00.html The President's Week] February 21, 1944] .
*He once sat on the All-China Interreligious Association [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,851822,00.html Chungking Meeting] June 14, 1943] .
*Pin was expected to have voted for a conservative candidate at the August 1978 conclave [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916332,00.html In Rome, a Week off Suspense] August 28, 1978] .
*The Cardinal, second from China, was convert|6|ft|m and convert|3|in|mm tall [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916356,00.html Milestones] August 28, 1978] .

References

Further reading

In European languages

*Paul Yu-Pin, "Un Problème psychique international: appel aux hommes de bonne foi aux hommes de bonne volonté". Bruxelles: Éd. de la Cité chrétienne, 1937.
*"The Voice of the Church in China, 1931-1932, 1937-1938", by Archbishop Marius Zanin, Bishop Auguste Haouisée and Bishop Paul Yu-Pin; with a preface by Dom Pierre-Célestin Lou Tseng-Tsiang. London and New York: Longmans, Green and co., 1938.
*"Eyes East: Selected Pronouncements of the Most Reverend Paul Yu-Pin". Paterson, N.J.: St. Anthony Guild Press, 1945.
*Raymond De Jaegher, "Vie de Mgr. Paul Yu Pin". Vietnam: Ed. du Pacifique libre, 1959.

External links

* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/byupin.html Catholic-Hierarchy]
* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-y.htm#Yu Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church]