Domingos Lam Ka Tseung (; 9 April 1928 – 27 July 2009) was the first Chinese-born bishop in the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau The Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau ( pt, 1=Diocese de Macau; ) is an exempt (i.e. an immediate subject of the Holy See and not part of any ecclesiastical province) Latin Rite diocese of the Catholic Church, in contrast with the Roman Catholic Di ...

. On 26 May 1987, he was appointed

Coadjutor Bishop A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) is a bishop in the Catholic, Anglican, and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese. The coadjutor (literally, "co ...

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 pop ...

and succeeded Arquimínio Rodrigues da Costa, the last Portuguese bishop, on 6 October 1988. He resigned on 30 June 2003, and died aged 81 in 2009

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