Editing Fu Jen Catholic University (section)

===Early history===
[[File:Papst_Pius_XI._1JS.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Pope Pius XI]] funded £100,000 to support the founding of the university.]]
[[File:FJU Gate01.jpg|thumb|180px|Fu Jen main entrance since 1963.]]
The institution was originally established in [[Beijing]] in 1925 by the [[Benedictines]] of [[St. Vincent Archabbey]] in [[Latrobe, Pennsylvania]], at the request of the [[Holy See]], with Archabbot [[Aurelius Stehle]] serving as chancellor.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=June 1929 |title=The Ball And The Cross: The Catholic University of Peking |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_the-catholic-world-a-monthly-magazine_1929-06_129_771/page/342/mode/2up?q=Stehle |journal=The Catholic World |volume=129 |issue=771 |pages=344 |quote=The project took definite shape when the General Chapter of Bene- dictines accepted this invitation on August 8, 1923. With the assur- ance of support, both moral and physical, of the other Benedictine Abbeys of America, the leading réle was intrusted to St. Vincent Arch- abbey. From that day the Chan- cellor of the Catholic University of Peking, the Right Rev. Aurelius Stehle, O.S.B., has worked indefati- gably for the spread of the Church in China. To his untiring efforts the University owes it speedy prog- ress and wonderful success. |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Fu Jen, then commonly known as the '''Catholic University of Peking''', was itself a successor to the '''Fu Jen Academy''' ({{zh|t=輔仁社}}), which was created through the efforts of Catholic scholars [[Ma Xiangbo]] and [[Ying Lianzhi]]. The university's first president (1925–1927) was the American missionary [[Barry O'Toole|George Barry O'Toole]], OSB. He was succeeded by [[Chen Yuan (historian)|Chen Yuan]], a Chinese [[Protestant]] and renowned historian, who remained university president until the school's forced closure by the [[Chinese Communist]] government in 1952.

In 1933 the [[Benedictines]] in the United States, in the midst of the [[Great Depression]], were no longer able to sustain Fu Jen's mission. Administration of the university passed to the [[Society of the Divine Word]] in Germany. Its affiliation with Germany, an ally of [[Imperial Japan]], helped protect university personnel from extreme brutality inflicted elsewhere by occupying [[Military history of Japan|Imperial Japanese soldiers]] during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War|Sino-Japanese War]] (1937–1945).