Lin Bingliang

{{Infobox Christian leader

| type = Priest

| name = 林秉良
James Lin Bing-liang

| title = Self-proclaimed Catholic Archdiocese of Guangzhou Bishop of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou

| diocese = Catholic Archdiocese of Guangzhou{{!}}Archdiocese of Guangzhou

| ordination = 1931-09-14

| consecration = 1990-05-06 China’s self-selected list of holy bishops

| consecrated_by = Zong Huaide (Zhoucun Diocese){{!}}Zong Huaide

| birth_place = Mainland Period of the Republic of China{{!}}Republic of China Guangdong Province (Republic of China){{!}}Guangdong Province Huiyang

}}

Lin Bingliang was born on June 6, 1913, in Huiyang, Guangdong Province, the Republic of China. In 1924, when he was 11 years old, he entered the Saint Francis of Assisi Minor Seminary in Guangzhou. 1941, he graduated from the Holy Spirit Seminary in British Hong Kong. On September 14 of the same year, Lin Bingliang was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong at 28.{{Cite book |url=http://catholic.crs.cuhk.edu.hk/Main/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/%E4%BA%BA%E4%BA%8B%E7%89%A9_EBOOK-27.10.2021-Final.pdf |title=華南總修院／聖神修院的⼈事物 |date=2021 |publisher=Xianggang Zhong wen da xue tian zhu jiao yan jiu zhong xin |isbn=978-988-79920-6-6 |language=zh |trans-title=People and Things in Holy Spirit Seminary}} Later, he returned to the Apostolic Vicariate of Guangzhou and served as a senior priest in Guangzhou, Dongguan and Heyuan parishes.

On October 1, 1949, the Chinese Communist Party established the People's Republic of China in mainland China and began to carry out religious persecution and suppression of Catholicism. The church was no longer able to function normally. During the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1979, all religious activities in the diocese ceased. In the early 1980s, the Guangzhou Archdiocese resumed operations, and Father Lin Bingliang was appointed the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus chief priest.

On February 15, 1990, promoted by China's Catholic Patriotic Association, an organization controlled by the Chinese government and forced by the government, the Archdiocese of Guangzhou elected Lin Bingliang as the bishop of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou without the permission of the Pope. On March 13 of the same year, Ye Yinyun, the illegitimate bishop of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou, passed away.{{Cite journal |last=天主教香港教區 |first=聖神修院{{!}}聖神研究中心 |title=簡訊 |trans-title=Newsletter |journal=鼎 |language=zh |pages=}}

On May 6 of the same year, Lin Bingliang was officiated by the illegitimate bishop Joseph Zong Huaide of the Zhoucun Diocese of Shandong Province. The illegitimate bishop Cai Tiyuan the Shantou Diocese of Guangdong and the illegitimate bishop Zhong Quanzhang Xiangli of the Jiaying Diocese illegally self-selected themselves to be ordained pastors. Afterwards, Lin Bingliang was excommunicated because he violated the Canon Code of Canon Law and committed self-consecration without the permission of the then Pope John Paul II.{{Cite web |title=廣州葉蔭雲主教安息 |trans-title=Bishop Ye Yinyun of Guangzhou rests in peace |url=https://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/MJ-Ip.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131114631/https://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/MJ-Ip.htm |archive-date=2022-01-31 |language=zh}}

On February 15, 1990, promoted by the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, an organization controlled by the Chinese government and forced by the government, the Archdiocese of Guangzhou elected Lin Bingliang as the bishop of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou without the permission of the Pope. On March 13 of the same year, Ye Yinyun, the illegitimate bishop of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou, passed away.

Category:20th-century Chinese Roman Catholic priests

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