New Guidelines: Vatican Encourages Clergy To Register With Regime Church
The guidelines finally ask the [betrayed] faithful to accept the "decisions" of the [regime] pastors.
Zhiu was consecrated priest on June 24, 1989 and bishop on January 6, 2000 serving as auxiliary bishop of Funing without papal permission being excommunicated latae sententiae and had been serving as bishop of Funing since August 5, 2005.
On September 22, 2018, Pope Francis lifted the excommunication of Zhan Silu and other six bishops previously appointed by the Chinese government without a pontifical mandate.[1][2]