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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.
Pages in category "Roman Catholic churches in Hong Kong" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Hong Kong Roman Catholic cathedral, circa 1870. In 1874 the Hong Kong Prefecture was raised to a vicariate apostolic and entrusted to the Seminary of Foreign Missions of Milan. [3] While the prefecture had been run by missionary priests, a vicariate was the intermediary step before becoming a diocese, and required a bishop to run it.
St. Joseph's Church is a Catholic Church in Garden Road on the Mid-levels, Victoria City, Hong Kong officiated and blessed on 20 November 1872.It was among the three remaining Catholic churches in the colony during the time; the others being the Immaculate Conception Cathedral and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.
The cathedral of the diocese, St. John's Cathedral, is the oldest surviving Western ecclesiastical building in Hong Kong. [1] It was constructed in the 1840s. [2] The incumbent Bishop of Hong Kong Island, Matthias Der, was consecrated as bishop on 3 October 2020 and enthroned on 2 January 2021. [3]
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]
St. Timothy Catholic Church is a Catholic parish of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, in hbd Our Lady of the Angels Pastoral Region. The church is located at 10425 West Pico Boulevard in the Rancho Park neighborhood on the westside of Los Angeles, California. Its Spanish Renaissance style church was built in 1949.