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Symeon Du

Last Eastern Orthodox bishop of Shanghai (1886–1965)

Bishop Symeon (Chinese: 主敎西麥翁, born Du Runchen, Chinese: 杜潤臣, Russian name Fyodor Semyonovich Du, Russian: Фёдор Семёнович Ду; February 11, 1886 - March 3, 1965) was bishop of the Chinese Orthodox Church. He was the last Eastern Orthodox bishop of Shanghai before the abolition of the see.

He was born on February 11, 1886, in Beijing to a family of Albazinian origin. His father was a church reader. He and his family escaped miraculously during Boxer Rebellion of 1900. From 1902, he served as psalm reader at the Church of the Presentation of the Lord at the Russian Embassy in Beijing. In 1904, he graduated from the missionary school at the Russian Orthodox Mission in Beijing and for several years served as a psalm reader and catechist in the Yung-ping-fu area (Peitaiho). In 1908, Bishop Innocent (Figurovsky), chief of the mission, ordained him a deacon. In 1909 Bishop Innocent appointed him to serve at the mission's metochion, the Annunciation Church, in Harbin. In addition to his duties as deacon, he served as a missionary, the treasurer, and manager of the parish's office in Harbin.

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