Bishop of Victoria

The Bishop of Victoria,[1] Hong Kong[2] was (from 1849 to 1951) the Ordinary of a corporation sole[3] including Hong Kong and South China[4] that ministered to 20,000 Anglicans.

Bishops

Assistant bishops

Among the assistant bishop of the diocese, there were:

  • Bishops of Guangzhou: Mok Sau Tsang (former Archdeacon of Canton) from 1935 (consecrated 25 January at the cathedral by Hall),[7] Victor Halward from 1946, and Mo-Yung In from 1950;
  • Bishops of Yunnan-Guizhou: Andrew Y. Y. Tsu from 1940
  • Quentin Huang was consecrated Bishop of Kunming in 1946, and became first Bishop of Yunkwei upon that diocese's erection in 1948;[8]
  • Mo-Yung In was consecrated Bishop of Canton in 1951[9]
  • and James C. L. Wong was Bishop of Jesselton from 1960 until his 1965 translation to Taiwan.

Archdeacons

Archdeacons during Ronald Hall's time included: Lee Kau Yan, Archdeacon of Hong Kong from 1946; Tsang Kei Ngok, Archdeacon of Beihan from 1946; Mo-Yung In, of Beihan from 1949; and Chung Yan Laap (John), of Hong Kong from 1965.[10]

Notes
  1. "Page 1552 | Issue 20977, 11 May 1849 | London Gazette | the Gazette".
  2. National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  3. Bishop of Victoria incorporation ordinance
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
  5. Handbook to the Diocese of Victoria (Hong Kong and South China) 1924. Chapter III. The Story of the Past. pp. 10–
  6. "Church news: Retired colonials". Church Times. No. 479. 5 April 1872. p. 156. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 23 December 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  7. "Church news. (Col. D & page 94, col. A)". Church Times. No. 3757. 25 January 1935. p. 93. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via UK Press Online archives.
  8. "Anglican bishop held by Chinese bandits". Church Times. No. 4538. 27 January 1950. p. 59. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 1 January 2022 – via UK Press Online archives.
  9. Chan-Yeung, p. 217
  10. Chan-Yeung, Moira M. W. (December 2015). The Practical Prophet: Bishop Ronald O. Hall of Hong Kong and His Legacies. ISBN 9789888208777.


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