Bishop James David Lin Xili †

Deceased

Bishop of Yongjia/Wenzhou [Yungkia, Wenchow], China

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Oct 1918		Born
3 Jun 1944	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest
22 Feb 1992	73.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Yongjia/Wenzhou [Yungkia, Wenchow], China
4 Oct 2009	90.9	Died	Bishop of Yongjia/Wenzhou [Yungkia, Wenchow], China

MicroData Summary
James David Lin Xili
Bishop James David Lin Xili
(born 19 Oct 1918, died 4 Oct 2009)
Bishop of Yongjia/Wenzhou [Yungkia, Wenchow]

Event Place
Birth Place Gaoyang, Leqing
Death Place Wenzhou, Diocese of Yongjia/Wenzhou [Yungkia, Wenchow]

a priest for 65.3 years
a bishop for 17.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop André-Jean-François Defebvre, C.M. †
Titular Bishop of Gibba
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Michael Xiao Liren (Siao Li Jen) †
Bishop of Xingtai [Shunteh]

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Michael Xiao Liren (Siao Li Jen) † (1982)
Bishop of Xingtai [Shunteh]
Bishop Casimir Wang Milu † (1981)
Bishop of Tianshui [Tsinchow]
Bishop Peter Joseph Fan Xueyan † (1951)
Bishop of Baoding [Paoting, Ching-Yüan]
Archbishop Giuseppe Ferruccio Maurizio Rosà, O.F.M. † (1946)
Archbishop of Hankow [Hankou]
Archbishop Paul Yü Pin (Yu Bin) † (1936)
Archbishop of Nanjing [Nanking]
Archbishop Mario Zanin † (1934)
Titular Archbishop of Traianopolis in Rhodope
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q375614

Source(s):

b: Bishops-In-China.com, 26 Dec 2019
b/c2: Clandestine Episcopal Ordinations in China, Year 2018, Number 71
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Number 13,309

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