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Christianity has been in Hong Kong since 1841 when British Empire started to rule Hong Kong. [ 1 ] As of 2022, there were about 1.3 million Christians in Hong Kong (16% of the total population), most of them are Protestant (around 900,000) and Catholic (around 401,000).
The older one, dating from 1915, is the Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches Union. The other one is the Hong Kong Christian Council, formed in 1954. As in mainland China, Protestant churches in Hong Kong provide religious care to all who attend worship services.
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The Hong Kong Christian Council (Also known as HKCC; Chinese: 香港基督教協進會) is a Christian ecumenical organization founded in Hong Kong in 1954. It is a member of the World Council of Churches and the Christian Conference of Asia .
One of the churches, Hop Yat Church [], at 2 Bonham Road, Sheung Wan The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China (Abbr: HKCCCC, Chinese: 中華基督教會香港區會) is a Protestant Christian church organization in Hong Kong.
It is centred on the city of Hong Kong and has jurisdiction over Eastern Orthodox Christians in Hong Kong, Macao, China, Taiwan, Mongolia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. Furthermore, it was established in November 1996 by the Holy Great Synod of Constantinople. [1] The incumbent metropolitan is Nektarios Tsilis.
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.