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Beneath the church is the tombs of 3 of the priests that served St Francis Xavier's church. The side windows are fitted with stained glass from the early 2000s with the earliest stained glass from the late 1800s placed above the altar depicting the life of St Francis Xavier, commissioned from Vietnam. The organ placed on the choir loft was ...
It is the oldest European building east of India. It is located on the summit of St. Paul's Hill. Every year, the church will be used for feast day mass on the first Saturday of December in honour of the feast day of St Francis Xavier. The tradition was started by a priest from the church of St francis Xavier Melaka since 1922.
Voyages of St. Francis Xavier, a Catholic missionary who preached in Malacca. The year 1511 marked the arrival of the Portuguese, led by Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque, and the first Catholic chaplains. The Portuguese captured Malacca for its well-known spice trade. Between 1545 and 1552, St Francis Xavier preached in Malacca. By 1557, Malacca ...
The original photo of St John's Chapel on Praya Lane. The Chapel of St. John the Baptist, [9] built on land donated by the De Souza family in 1864, was completed and consecrated by Fr. François Allard, the parish priest of St. Francis Xavier Church. The chapel was used as a chapel cum kindergarten for almost 100 years before it was ...
St. Francis Xavier was a Spanish Catholic missionary who travelled around Asia and stayed at Malacca on several occasions between 1545 and 1552. When he died of fever on his way to China in 1552 his body was brought to Malacca, and temporarily buried for nine months in St. Paul's Church, which is today marked by an open grave, before it was transported to Goa, India.
The Cathedral of the Good Shepherd before its restoration in 2006. The Roman Catholic Church in Singapore was initially under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Malacca, [2] [3] [4] established by the papal bull pro excellenti praeeminentia issued by Pope Paul IV on 4 February 1558 as one of two new suffragan dioceses (the other being Diocese of Cochin) to the Archdiocese of Goa.
Christ Church, Malacca; Church of St. Francis Xavier (Melaka) Church of Saint Paul, Malacca; S. St. Peter's Church (Melaka) T. Tamil Methodist Church
On 18 December 1972, the diocese was renamed as the Diocese of Malacca-Johor, when the Archdiocese of Malacca-Singapore was split into the Archdiocese of Singapore and this diocese. Rt. Rev James Chan was appointed as the first Bishop. On 27 May 1985, its name was changed to the Diocese of Melaka-Johor.