The Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao was an extra-provincial

diocese In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...

in the

Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other ...

serving

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

and

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a p ...

. It existed from 1951 until 1998, when it was reorganized as an autonomous Anglican church, the

Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui The Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (abbreviated SKH), also known as the Hong Kong Anglican Church (Episcopal), is the Anglican church in Hong Kong and Macao. It is the 38th Province of the Anglican Communion. It is also one of the major denominations ...

History

The diocese was a remnant of the older Anglican Diocese of Victoria, part of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui, China's autonomous Anglican church. The Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui was effectively abolished in 1949 during the Chinese Revolution due to the formation of the

Three-Self Patriotic Movement The Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM; ) is the official government supervisory organ for Protestantism in the People's Republic of China. It is colloquially known as the Three-Self Church (). The National Committee of the Three-Self Patriot ...

. Anglicans in

and

reorganized the diocese, which was essentially extra-provincial under the Archbishop of Canterbury. The diocese was abolished in 1998 upon the formation of the

as a province of the

in its own right. It was split into four new dioceses: three in Hong Kong and a missionary area covering Macao.

Bishops

Ronald Hall Ronald Owen Hall (; Cantonese: ''Ho Ming Wah''; 22 July 1895 in Newcastle upon Tyne – 22 April 1975 in Lewknor, Oxfordshire) was an Anglican missionary bishop in Hong Kong and China in the mid 20th century. As an emergency measure during th ...

Andrew Tsu Andrew Yu-Yue Tsu ( zh, t=朱友漁, s=朱友渔, first=t, w=Chu Yu-yü, December 18, 1885 – April 13, 1986) was the eighth Chinese Anglican bishop consecrated in the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui. Biography Tsu was born on December 18, 1885. He stu ...

(assistant) * Gilbert Baker ** Luke Cheung Wing Ngok (assistant) * Peter Kwong

Cheung Wing Ngok

Luke Cheung Wing Ngok (; 28 January 19168 January 1979) was an Anglican bishop who served as assistant bishop in the Diocese of Hong Kong and Macau, 1978–1979. Having served as Archdeacon of Hong Kong and Vicar of St Stephen's Church for three decades,Wickeri, Philip L. & Chen Ruiwen. ''Thy Kingdom Come: A Photographic History of Anglicanism in Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China'' (2019, Hong Kong University Press
p. 155
/ref> Cheung was consecrated a bishop on 13 June 1978 at St John's Cathedral (Hong Kong), but only served for a few months, before he died of cancer in January 1979.

References

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