John Wang Renlei

John Wang Renlei (Chinese: 王仁雷; pinyin: Wáng Rénléi; born April 1970) is a Chinese Catholic priest and the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Xuzhou from 2011.

[1][2] Wang was born in Weishan County, Shandong, in April 1970, to a Catholic family.

In August of the same year, Joseph Liu Yuanren, the former chairman of the Chinese Catholic Church and then Bishop of Nanjing Diocese, consecrated him as a priest.

On November 30, 2006, he was elected Coadjutor bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Xuzhou.

At the beginning of 2012, he reconciled with the Holy See, which recognized him as the rightful Ordinary.