Pi was born
Pi Jinxu () in Shaling Village of
Liaoyang County,
Fengtian Province, on February 1, 1897, to a Catholic family. He was being christened in 1906. From 1909 to 1927 he studied theology at Shenyang Monastery. He was ordained a priest in 1927. He became a priest of Dalian Catholic Church in 1942. On July 26, 1949 he was appointed
archbishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shenyang by
Pope Pius XII, becoming the fourth Chinese archbishop from China, after
Thomas Tien Ken-sin,
Paul Yü Pin, and
Joseph Zhou Jishi. On October 11 of that same year, he was ordained by
Antonio Riberi. After the establishment of the Communist State in October 1951, he was put in prison was released in 1955. In July 1957 he was elected president of the newly founded
Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association. During the
Cultural Revolution, he suffered
political persecution. He died in
Beijing on May 16, 1978, aged 81. He was buried in the
Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery. In 2005 his ashes were buried in the Tieling Catholic Cemetery. ==References==