Joseph Liu Xinhong is the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association

Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association

The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association , abbreviated CPA, CPCA, or CCPA, is an association of people, established in 1957 by the People's Republic of China's Religious Affairs Bureau to exercise state supervision over mainland China's Catholics...

-sponsored Bishop of Anhui

Anhui

Anhui is a province in the People's Republic of China. Located in eastern China across the basins of the Yangtze River and the Huai River, it borders Jiangsu to the east, Zhejiang to the southeast, Jiangxi to the south, Hubei to the southwest, Henan to the northwest, and Shandong for a tiny...

. As a layman, he was considered the strongman of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association

Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association

The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association , abbreviated CPA, CPCA, or CCPA, is an association of people, established in 1957 by the People's Republic of China's Religious Affairs Bureau to exercise state supervision over mainland China's Catholics...

, whose deputy chairman he was. This association was established in 1957 to oppose relations with Rome. Consecrated as bishop in 2006 without pontifical mandate, he was automatically excommunicated

Excommunication

Excommunication is a religious censure used to deprive, suspend or limit membership in a religious community. The word means putting [someone] out of communion. In some religions, excommunication includes spiritual condemnation of the member or group...

, if not already out of communion.

See also

• Joseph Ma Yinglin
  Joseph Ma Yinglin
  Joseph Ma Yinglin is the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association-sponsored Bishop of the diocese of Kunming, China. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 April 2006, at age 40. The diocese had been vacant for 11 years....
  
  
• Zhan Silu
  Zhan Silu
  Zhan Silu is the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association-sponsored Bishop of the archdiocese of Mindong, Fujian, China. He was consecrated as bishop in 2000 but had been serving as a deputy to another who died in 2005.-References:**...
  
  
• Joseph Li Shan
  Joseph Li Shan
  Joseph Li Shan is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Beijing, China. He was consecrated a bishop on 21 September 2007, at age 42 at a ceremony at Nan Tang at Xuanwumen...
  
  
• Bernardine Dong Guangqing
  Bernardine Dong Guangqing
  Bernardine Dong Guangqing was the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association-sponsored Bishop of Wuhan, China.-See also:*Joseph Ma Yinglin*Joseph Liu Xinhong...