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The first Bishop of Kuching to be styled as such was appointed in 1962. [3] In 1968, Basil Temenggong was appointed the bishop of the diocese, becoming the first native Malaysian and Sarawakian to be appointed to the seat. [4] The current bishop is Danald Jute who was appointed after the retirement of the former bishop, Bolly Lapok.
The Diocese of Kuching is a diocese of the Anglican Church of the Province of South East Asia that covers Sarawak (in Malaysia) and Brunei. Founded in 1962, the see was originally established as the Bishopric of Sarawak linked to the Diocese of Labuan in 1855. [ 1 ]
Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is in St Joseph's Cathedral, in Kuching, named after the spouse of the Virgin Mary, who was the diocese's patron. Former auxiliary bishop Simon Peter Poh Hoon Seng was appointed as the third and current Archbishop of Kuching by Pope Francis on 4 March 2017 following the resignation of his predecessor, John Ha ...
Datuk Made anak Katib (23 January 1942 – 23 January 2013) was a Malaysian former Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Kuching.He held the position from 1996 until 2007. An ethnic Biatah Bidayuh, he was the first Bishop of the diocese to emerge from the Bidayuh Dayak community.
Richard Ng (born 20 June 1966) is a Malaysian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Miri since 2014. He was a priest in the Archdiocese of Kuching prior to his appointment as bishop.
On 15 April 2007, Bolly was consecrated as the 13th Bishop of Kuching, succeeding the Rt. Rev'd Datuk Made Katib. In the Extraordinary Provincial Synod Meeting held in Kota Kinabalu , Sabah, Malaysia on 21 to 23 September 2011, he was elected as the Archbishop elect of the Province of South East Asia and was installed on 12 February 2012 at St ...
A retired Roman Catholic bishop appeared in court in remote Western Australia on Thursday on charges of sexual offences against children, including two counts of rape. The charges against ...
Leong was born in 1925 in Kuching, the son of a tailor. [1] His father died when young John was eight and the family moved to Miri, where he was educated at St. Joseph's Secondary School in the said town and later returned to Kuching and resumed his studies in the school of the same name as well as in St. Thomas' Secondary School, Kuching. [1]