ASIA/CHINA - Father Lawrence J. Lewis dies: Chinese students remember the Maryknoll missionary "with great gratitude"

Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - His many Chinese students - priests, religious and lay people - have expressed "great gratitude and affection" on the death of the Maryknoll missionary Father Lawrence J. Lewis, who died on November 28th at the age of 77 in Syracuse (New York State). Father Lewis dedicated half a century of his life to the mission and the Catholic Church in China, with a particular focus on the formation of Chinese priests, religious and lay people. He was Director of the "Chinese Seminary Teachers & Formators Project" of the Maryknoll missionaries.
His former Chinese students remember Father Lewis with gratitude and deep sadness in a moving joint letter of condolence.
The Maryknoll Society for Foreign Missions, MM, founded on June 29, 1911 in Marynoll (USA), had already sent three young members (James E. Walsh, Fr. Francis X. Ford and Fr. Bernard F. Meyer) to China in 1918, together with one of the founders, Fr. Thomas Frederick Price. Fr. Price died tragically shortly after his arrival. His confreres began their missionary work in China, which was continued with the sending of numerous members (men and women) of the Society of Apostolic Life.
In the first two decades after China opened up in the 1980s, the Chinese Seminary Teachers and Formators Project, which was directed for many years by Fr. Lewis in collaboration with the local Churches, trained a considerable number of bishops, priests, nuns and lay people who today make a valuable contribution to the apostolic work of the Church in China. (NZ) (Agenzia Fides, 2/12/2024)

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