Paul Pei Junmin
Paul Pei Junmin is a Chinese Catholic priest and Metropolitan Archbishop of Shenyang since 2008.Biography
Pei was born in Harqin Zuoyi Mongol Autonomous County, Liaoning in 1969, to a Catholic family. After graduating from Shenyang Catholic Seminary in 1990, he worked in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, Shenyang.
He was ordained a priest on May 31, 1992. In 1993, he went to study at the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.
He returned to China at the end of 1996 and that same year taught at Shenyang Catholic Seminary. On January 12, 2006, he was elected assistant bishop of Liaoning diocese and was honored pastoral post on May 7, 2006. His appointment was endorsed by the Holy See. On June 29, 2008, Bishop Pius Jin Pei-xian retired and Assistant Bishop Pei Junmin succeeded his position. In December 2010, he was elected vice-chairman of the Bishops Conference of Catholic Church in China at the Eighth National Conference of Catholic Representatives in China.
