Francis Savio Lu Xinping

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lu.

Francis Savio Lu Xinping (Chinese: 陆新平; born 1963) is a Chinese Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Nanjing since 2000.

His Excellency, The Most Reverend Francis Savio Lu Xinping
Archbishop of Nanjing
Church	Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Archdiocese	Nanjing
Province	Jiangsu
Installed	2000
Predecessor	Paul Yu Pin
Orders
Ordination	1989 by Matthew Yu Chengcai
Consecration	2000
Personal details
Born	1963 (age 61–62) Haimen Country, Jiangsu, China
Nationality	Chinese
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Coat of arms
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	陆新平
Traditional Chinese	陸新平
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lù Xīnpíng

Biography

Xinping was born in Haimen Country, Jiangsu, in 1963. He was educated at the Sheshan Seminar at Shanghai, and was ordained a priest in 1989 by Haima's government-approved Bishop Matthew Yu Chengcai (1917–2006).

He was one of the five priests made bishops at Nantang Church in Beijing on 6 January 2000, without a papal mandate.^[1] The chief consultant was Bishop Joseph Liu Yuanren. Xinping became Archbishop of Nanjing on 20 April 2005, succeeding Yuanren. In 2007, he contacted the Holy See to ask for forgiveness and was recognized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008.

Xinping was elected a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.^[2]