Year	Date	Events
1872	30 November	Blessing of St. Joseph's Church, Garden Road, which however was razed to the ground by a typhoon on 22 September 1874 and rebuilt in 1876 (erected as a parish on 25 January 1949, the new church blessed on 1 June 1968).
1874	17 November	The Hong Kong Prefecture raised to Vicariate Apostolic and enlarged to include, beside San On, Kwai Hsin (Wai Yeung) and Hoi Fung Districts, with Fr. Raimondi appointed as 1st Vicar Apostolic (consecrated bishop on 22 November).
1875	9 May	The Vicariate Synod opened: 5 Ecclesiastical Districts established.
	7 November	Arrival of La Salle Christian Brothers, who took over the West Point Reformatory and the Holy Saviour's College, changing it into St. Joseph's College (new premises, Kennedy Road, opened on 3 September 1918).
1877	¡@	Mission work spread to Hoi Fung District; Fr. Louis Sasso took up residence there in 1878.
	22 September	"Hong Kong Catholic Register", an English language weekly, founded.
1879	22 March	Blessing of the Sacred Heart Church, West Point (changed into St. Anthony's in 1892, erected as a parish on 25 January 1949).