Hong Kong was established as an Apostolic Prefecture on 22
April 1841, raised to Apostolic Vicariate on 17 November 1874, and raised to Diocese on 11
April 1946.
一八四一年四月廿二日,羅馬天主教會在香港設立宗座監牧區;一八七四年十一月十七日該宗座監牧區晉升為宗座代牧區;又於一九四六年四月十一日由宗座代牧區晉升為聖統制的主教區
。
宗座監牧區 APOSTOLIC PREFECTURE (1841-1874) |
An Apostolic Prefecture is generally the first step toward
organization of a church hierarchy in a determined territory. It is ordinarily headed by a
priest, the Prefect Apostolic, a representative from Rome appointed simply by the decree
of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide. |
1841 - 1842 | JOSET Theodore (若瑟) | Prefect Apostolic (宗座監牧) |
1842 - 1847 | FELICIANI Antonio (裴 [傅安當]) | Prefect Apostolic ad Interim (暫代監牧) |
1847 - 1850 | FORCADE Theodore Augustin (科) | Pro-prefect Apostolic (宗座代監牧) |
1850 - 1855 | FELICIANI Antonio (裴 [傅安當]) | Prefect Apostolic ad Interim (暫代監牧) |
1855 - 1867 | AMBROSI Luigi (盎) | Prefect Apostolic (宗座監牧) |
1867 - 1868 | RAIMONDI Giovanni Timoleone (高) | Pro-prefect Apostolic (宗座代監牧) |
1868 - 1874 | RAIMONDI Giovanni Timoleone (高) | Prefect Apostolic (宗座監牧) |
宗座代牧區 APOSTOLIC VICARIATE (1874-1946) |
An Apostolic Vicariate is a local church governed by the
Pope through
the actual direction of the central missionary agency in Rome, the Sacred Congregation of
Propaganda Fide, which assigned a titular bishop with apostolic letters to govern the
vicariate. |
1874 - 1894 | RAIMONDI Giovanni Timoleone (高) | Vicar Apostolic (宗座代牧) |
1895 - 1904 | PIAZZOLI Luigi (和) | Vicar Apostolic (宗座代牧) |
1905 - 1924 | POZZONI Dominico (師多敏) | Vicar Apostolic (宗座代牧) |
1924 - 1926 | SPADA Giovanni (德若翰 [施巴達]) | Vicar Capitular (代牧區署理) |
1926 - 1946 | VALTORTA Enrico (恩理覺) | Vicar Apostolic (宗座代牧) |
教區 DIOCESE OF HONG KONG (1946 - ) |
A Diocese is an ordinary territorial division of the church headed by
a bishop, who governs it in his own name. The bishop, though he is subject to the Roman
Pontiff, is not the vicar of the latter. A Diocese ordinarily takes its name from the see
city, the community where the bishop resides and his cathedral is located. |
1946 - 1951 | VALTORTA Enrico (恩理覺) | Bishop of Hong Kong (香港主教) |
1951 - 1952 | RIGANTI Antonius (戴遐齡) | Vicar Capitular (教區署理) |
1952 - 1969 | BIANCHI Lorenzo (白英奇) | Bishop of Hong Kong (香港主教) |
1969 - 1973 | HSU Chen-Ping Francis Xavier (徐誠斌) | Bishop of Hong Kong (香港主教) |
1973 | LEI Wang-Kei Peter (李宏基) | Vicar Capitular (教區署理) |
1973 - 1974 | LEI Wang-Kei Peter (李宏基) | Bishop of Hong Kong (香港主教) |
1974 - 1975 | LAM Cheuk-Wai Gabriel (林焯煒) | Vicar Capitular (教區署理) |
1975 - 2002 | WU Cheng-Chung John Baptist (胡振中) | Bishop of Hong Kong
(香港主教) [1988: Cardinal 樞機] |
2002 - 2009 | ZEN Ze-Kiun Joseph (陳日君) | Bishop of Hong Kong
(香港主教) [2006: Cardinal 樞機] |
2009 - 2017 | TONG Hon John (湯漢) | Bishop of Hong Kong
(香港主教) [2012: Cardinal 樞機] |
2014 - 2019 | YEUNG Ming-Cheung Michael (楊鳴章) | Bishop of Hong Kong (香港主教) |
2014 - | HA Chi-Shing Joseph (夏志誠) | Auxiliary Bishop of Hong Kong (香港教區輔理主教) |
2019 - 2021 | TONG Hon John (湯漢) | Apostolic Administrator (宗座署理) |
2021 - | CHOW Sau-Yan Stephen (周守仁) | Bishop of Hong Kong (香港主教) [2023: Cardinal 樞機] |