John Chen Shi-zhong (Chinese: 陳適中; pinyin: Chén Shìzhōng; Wade–Giles: Chʻen Shih-chung; 26 December 1917[1] – 16 December 2012 in Yibin, Sichuan, China)[2] was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Suifu (Yibin), China.
Born in 1917 to a Chinese Catholic family and raised in Yibin, Bishop Chen was ordained to the priesthood in 1947.
[2] He was recognized by the Holy See and the People's Republic of China as bishop.
[2] In 1988 to 1989 he was briefly rector of the regional seminary in Szechwan, before returning to his diocese in Yibin, due to ill health.
[3] In 2011, Peter Luo Xuegang was consecrated as coadjutor bishop of Yibin (Suifu) to assist Shizhong.