title: Joseph Wu Qinjing
text: # Joseph Wu Qinjing
  
  Joseph Wu Qinjing (Chinese: 吴钦敬; born November 11, 1968) is a Chinese Catholic priest and the current bishop of Zhouzhi since 2005.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Wu was born in Wufeng Village of Xingping, Shaanxi, on November 11, 1968. After high school in 1989, he was accepted to Shanghai Sheshan Seminary, where he graduated in 1995.
  
  He was ordained a priest by Yang Guangyan (Chinese: 杨广彦) on February 11, 1996. In 2000, he went to the United States for further study. Three years later, he received a master's degree in etiquette theology from St. John's University, Minnesota. After receiving a master's degree from Fordham University in New York in 2005, he returned home and continued to teach at Shaanxi Seminary.
  
  In September 2006, he was put under house arrest by the Communist government. He was released in 2014.
  
  In 2010 he was elected Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Zhouzhi. He accepted the episcopacy with the papal mandate on October 19, 2005.
  
  