St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong

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St. John's Cathedral

St. John's Cathedral in Central, Hong Kong
Traditional Chinese: 聖約翰座堂
Simplified Chinese: 圣约翰座堂
Interior of St. John's Cathedral
Interior of St. John's Cathedral
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St. John's Cathedral (traditional Chinese: 聖約翰座堂), officially called The Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist, located at 4 Garden Road, Central, is an Anglican cathedral in Hong Kong. It is the Diocesan cathedral of the Diocese of Hong Kong Island and the focus of the Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (traditional Chinese: 香港聖公會; also known as Hong Kong Anglican Church). It also houses the seat of the Archbishop of Hong Kong.

The Anglican cathedral is one of the two cathedrals in the city, the other being the Roman Catholic Immaculate Conception Cathedral. St. John's Cathedral is the oldest surviving Western ecclesiastical building in Hong Kong, and the oldest Anglican church in the Far East[1], with its construction completed in 1849. It was declared a monument in 1996. It is notable that the Cathedral is located at the centre of Powers of Hong Kong as it is surrounded by the Bank of China Tower, HSBC Building (economic), Legislative Council Building (legislative), Central Government Offices (executive) and the Court of Final Appeal (judicial).

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[edit] History

On the morning of 8th December 1941, the day after their attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked Hong Kong. On Christmas morning 1941 the Reverend Alaric P. Rose took the morning service in St John's with a congregation of one hundred, whilst shelling continued on the island.

On the 9th September 1945, the first service after the arrival of the Royal Navy was held in the Cathedral. [1]

The colonial authorities granted the Cathedral site as freehold land, and to this day St. John's Cathedral occupies the only plot of freehold land in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

[edit] Clergy

Clergy Position Name
Archbishop of Hong Kong The Most Revd Paul Kwong
Archbishop Emeritus of Hong Kong The Most Revd Peter Kwong
Dean The Very Revd Andrew Chan
Chaplain The Revd Desmond Cox
The Revd John Chynchen
The Revd Hugh Phillipson

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Hong Kong Tourism Board will organise some training programs preparing the Tour Guides

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Coordinates: 22°16′43.86″N, 114°9′34.41″E

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