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[[Image:20080615 - Fr Michael Wang.jpg|right|thumb|230px|June 15, 2008. (Photo by Olga Kiseleva).]]
 
[[Image:20080615 - Fr Michael Wang.jpg|right|thumb|230px|June 15, 2008. (Photo by Olga Kiseleva).]]
 
[[Image:1953 - Rdr Wang Quansheng.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Reader Michael, 1953.]]
 
[[Image:1953 - Rdr Wang Quansheng.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Reader Michael, 1953.]]
Fr. '''Michael Wang Quansheng''' is a [[priest]] who resides to this day in Shanghai. Until now, still harbouring fears of retribution, he has chosen not to meet or have contact with anyone from the West nor prepared to receive catechumens or unfamiliar Orthodox visitors.  
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Fr. '''Michael Wang Quansheng''', born on 27 January 1924, was a [[priest]] who resided in Shanghai. Harbouring fears of retribution, he chose not to meet or have contact with anyone from the West nor was prepared to receive catechumens or unfamiliar Orthodox visitors.  
  
in 2008 Fr. Michael Wang Quansheng and Protodeacon [[Evangelos Lu Yaofu]], the only indigenous Orthodox clergy left in China, took part in Divine Services for the first time in 46 years, at the Russian consulate in Shanghai, and were awarded medals of the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh (I Degree) by Patriarch [[Alexei II (Ridiger) of Moscow|Alexius II of Moscow]].
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On Pentecost in 2008, Fr. Michael Wang Quansheng and Protodeacon [[Evangelos Lu Yaofu]], the only indigenous Orthodox clergy left in China, took part in Divine Services for the first time in 46 years, at the Russian consulate in Shanghai, and were awarded medals of the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh (I Degree) by Patriarch [[Alexei II (Ridiger) of Moscow|Alexius II of Moscow]].
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Since that time, Father Michael took part in the services celebrated by archpriest Alexy Kiselev in Shanghai.
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On 2 June 2015, the Rev. Michael Wang Quansheng, the oldest priest of the Chinese Autonomous Orthodox Church died at the age of 90. Orthodox Christians arrived from all over China to pay last respects to the oldest Chinese priest, including deacon Alexander Yu Shi, a student of the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
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==External Links==
 
==External Links==
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* ''[http://www.pravmir.com/the-oldest-chinese-priest-dies/ The oldest Chinese priest dies].'' PRAVMIR.COM. 06 JUNE 2015.
 
* [http://www.orthodox.cn/contemporary/shanghai/20080313clergyaward_en.htm Ecclesiastical awards presented to clerics of the Chinese Autonomous Orthodox Church]. March 13, 2008.
 
* [http://www.orthodox.cn/contemporary/shanghai/20080313clergyaward_en.htm Ecclesiastical awards presented to clerics of the Chinese Autonomous Orthodox Church]. March 13, 2008.
  

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June 15, 2008. (Photo by Olga Kiseleva).
Reader Michael, 1953.

Fr. Michael Wang Quansheng, born on 27 January 1924, was a priest who resided in Shanghai. Harbouring fears of retribution, he chose not to meet or have contact with anyone from the West nor was prepared to receive catechumens or unfamiliar Orthodox visitors.

On Pentecost in 2008, Fr. Michael Wang Quansheng and Protodeacon Evangelos Lu Yaofu, the only indigenous Orthodox clergy left in China, took part in Divine Services for the first time in 46 years, at the Russian consulate in Shanghai, and were awarded medals of the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh (I Degree) by Patriarch Alexius II of Moscow.

Since that time, Father Michael took part in the services celebrated by archpriest Alexy Kiselev in Shanghai.

On 2 June 2015, the Rev. Michael Wang Quansheng, the oldest priest of the Chinese Autonomous Orthodox Church died at the age of 90. Orthodox Christians arrived from all over China to pay last respects to the oldest Chinese priest, including deacon Alexander Yu Shi, a student of the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary.

See also

External Links

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