Hong Kong Bishop Stephen Chow and several of his senior priests visit the Chinese capital at the invitation of Bishop of Beijing Joseph Li Shan.
HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s top Catholic cleric is due to arrive in Beijing on Monday, April 17, on the first visit to the Chinese capital by a bishop of the former British colony in nearly 30 years, despite signs of new Sino-Vatican tension.
The deal struck in 2018 was a bid to ease a longstanding divide among mainland China’s roughly 12 million Catholics between an underground Church that swears loyalty to the Vatican and the state-supervised Catholic Patriotic Association. When asked if he was carrying any message for his hosts from the Vatican, Chow, through a spokesperson, said: “This is an exchange of visits between dioceses. Mainland China has established liaison with the Vatican on state affairs.”
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