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Holy Family Mass Centre (Choi Hung Estate) St. Francis Xavier Chapel (Choi Wan Estate) Mary Help of Christians Church ; Holy Spirit Mass Centre ; Ling To Mass Centre (Ho Man Tin) Mother of Good Counsel Church (San Po Kong) St. Vincent's Chapel (Wong Tai Sin) Notre Dame Chapel (Ma Tau Wai) St. Eugene de Mazenod Mass Centre
After the First Opium War, Hong Kong was ceded to the British in the Treaty of Nanking and the colony soon became a popular stopover for missionaries travelling onwards to China. [2] The parish was established in 1842 by Theodore Joset , the first Prefect Apostolic of Hong Kong, and work began on a new and permanent church soon afterwards. [ 3 ]
The Catholic Church in Hong Kong (Chinese: 天主教香港教區), established in 1841, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. All Catholics in Hong Kong are under the Diocese of Hong Kong , which is a de jure suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong (Chinese: 天主教香港教區; Latin: Dioecesis Sciiamchiamensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church. The diocese takes its name from the see city , the metropolitan area where the bishop resides.
In 1981, Peter Kwong became the first Chinese bishop of Hong Kong, [6] who went on to become the first archbishop of Hong Kong when the province was established in 1998. The site of St John's Cathedral is the only freehold land in Hong Kong, granted in fee simple pursuant to s. 6(1) of the Church of England Trust Ordinance (Cap. 1014) of 1930.
Hong Kong is dealing with the aftermath of Typhoon Saola, after the powerful storm battered the city leaving debris across the streets, as well as flooding. Tens of millions of people in Hong Kong ...
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (Chinese: 聖母聖衣堂) is a Roman Catholic church in the Diocese of Hong Kong. It is located in the Wanchai district at 1 Star Street . [ 1 ] The church is unique being located within a private multi-storey residential building, rather than a stand-alone structure. [ 2 ]
Rosary Church is located at 125 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is the oldest Catholic church in Kowloon. [1] The church is in Gothic style; the original plan was based on a Roman Basilican model. The church, St. Mary's Canossian College and St. Mary's Canossian School in adjacent belongs to same building cluster.