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The Catholic Church in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei (its two small Malay neighbors) is composed of a Latin Church hierarchy, joint in the transnational Episcopal Conference of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, consisting of three ecclesiastical provinces in Malaysia, a non-metropolitan archdiocese for Singapore, and a pre-diocesan Apostolic Vicariate for Brunei.
The Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu (Lat: Archdioecesis Kotakinabaluensis) is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Sabah, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. The archdiocese is the oldest ecclesiastical territory in Malaysia, with a long history slowly rising along with the Catholic population from a prefecture ...
Sacred Heart Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu, and the seat of its current archbishop, John Wong Soo Kau. The current cathedral was built from 1979 to 1981, with its dedication held on 21 November 1981.
His episcopal ordination was on 26 June 1987. On 23 May 2008 he was appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu when the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese. [1] He was the president of the Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei Episcopal Commission for Family Life. He officially retired on 24 January 2013 and was succeeded by John Wong Soo Kau.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei (CBCMSB) is the episcopal conference representing the Catholic Church in the countries of Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. The conference serves as a collaborative body of bishops, including diocesan bishops , coadjutors , auxiliary bishops , and diocesan administrators , who ...
The Diocese of Keningau (Lat: Dioecesis Keningauensis) is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Keningau, Sabah, Malaysia.This diocese covers Sabah's interior districts of Keningau (including Sook), Nabawan (including Pensiangan and Sapulut), Sipitang, Beaufort (including Membakut), Tenom (including Kemabong), Tambunan and Kuala Penyu as well as a partial extraterritoriality ...
1.11 Episcopal Conference of Malaysia. ... Diocese of Port Blair; ... Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu. Diocese of Keningau;
John Wong was born as the 7th of 11 children (five brothers and five sisters) on 6 June 1968 in Sandakan, Sabah to ethnic Hakka Chinese Catholic parents. His father, Paul Wong Shui Tshun was a hawker selling yong taufu (stuffed bean curd) and fish balls at the Sandakan Central Market, while his mother, Rose Chung Thiem Yin (born 1939) was a housewife.