Florence Li Tim-Oi was the first woman to be ordained to the priesthood in the Anglican Communion,on 25 January 1944.
The Catholic Church in Malaysia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church,under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome. The apostolic nuncio to Malaysia is currently Archbishop Wojciech Załuski,who was appointed on 22 September 2020;The resident ambassador of Malaysia to the Holy See is Westmoreland Anak Edward Palon.
Nicholas Gerald Chia Yeck Joo DD,STL was the third Roman Catholic Archbishop of Singapore and the first Singapore-born clergyman to hold the office. He officially retired as Archbishop of Singapore on 18 May 2013,and is succeeded by Archbishop William Goh. He was educated at both Montfort Junior and Secondary schools.
The Church of the Province of South East Asia is an autonomous member of the Anglican Communion,created in 1996 with the four dioceses of Kuching,Sabah,Singapore and West Malaysia.
The College General is a Roman Catholic interdiocesan seminary located in Tanjung Bungah,Penang,Malaysia. The college's foundation can be traced back to the 1665 establishment of the Seminary of Saint Joseph in Ayuthia which was then the capital of Siam.
The Diocese of Kuching is a diocese of the Anglican Church of the Province of South East Asia that covers Sarawak and Brunei. Founded in 1962,the see was originally established as the Bishopric of Sarawak linked to the Diocese of Labuan in 1855. The current bishop is the Most Rev'd Danald Jute,14th Lord Bishop of the Diocese of Kuching and Brunei,who was consecrated on 13 August 2017. His seat is at St. Thomas' Cathedral,Kuching.
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Malaysia. It was erected as the Diocese of Kuala Lumpur by Pope Pius XII on 25 February 1955,and was elevated to the rank of a Metropolitan Archdiocese on 18 December 1972,with the suffragan sees of Malacca-Johor and Penang. It also administers the capital city of Malaysia,Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur as well as the federal administrative centre of Putrajaya and the urbanised states of Selangor and Negeri Sembilan in the central region as well as Pahang and Terengganu on the East Coast. The archdiocese's Mother Church and thus,seat of its Archbishop,is St. John's Cathedral. It was one of the three Roman Catholic archdioceses in Malaysia,with the ecclesiastical archdioceses of Kota Kinabalu and Kuching.
The Diocese of West Malaysia is an Anglican diocese which covers the entire West Malaysia. The Diocese of West Malaysia (DWM) was founded on 8 April 1970,as DWM together with Diocese of Singapore split from Diocese of Singapore and Malaya. As a result,Diocese of Singapore and Malaya was dissolved.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Penang is situated in the northern as well as the east coast region of Peninsular Malaysia covering 4 northern states,namely Perlis,Kedah,Penang and Perak as well as the east coast state of Kelantan. It was created on 25 February 1955 together with the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur. It is under the Ecclesiastical province of Kuala Lumpur.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sibu is the ecclesiastical territory of the Latin Church or the diocese of the Catholic Church in the state of Sarawak,Malaysia. It is headquartered in Sibu and covered the divisions of Sibu,Mukah,Sarikei,and Kapit.
Stephan Ackermann is a German bishop. He was elected by the Cathedral Chapter as Bishop of Trier in the Moselle area of Germany in 2009.
Sacred Heart Cathedral in Sibu,Sarawak is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sibu. It is the seat of the Bishop of Sibu,currently Joseph Hii Teck Kwong.
John Wong Soo Kau is a Malaysian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was named the second metropolitan Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu on 24 January 2013,the Feast of St Francis de Sales,by Pope Francis. He is fully styled as His Grace Most Reverend Datuk John Wong,Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu. Sacred Heart Cathedral in the metropolitan of Kota Kinabalu is the seat of Archbishop Wong,and the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu.
James Chan Soon Cheong was a Malaysian prelate in the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Selama,Perak,he was ordained a priest on 9 August 1959. He was appointed Bishop of Melaka-Johor on 22 December 1972. His episcopal ordination took place on 8 June 1973. He retired at the age of 75 years on 10 December 2001.
The Catholic Bishops’Conference of Malaysia,Singapore and Brunei (C.B.C.M.S.B.) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic bishops of Malaysia,Singapore and Brunei.
The Philadelphia Eleven are eleven women who were the first women ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church on July 29,1974,two years before General Convention affirmed and explicitly authorized the ordination of women to the priesthood.
Sebastian Francis is a Malaysian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as Bishop of Penang since 2011 and as the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Malaysia,Singapore and Brunei since 2016. He has been the chairman of the Office of Social Communication (OSC) of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC) since 2023.
Joseph Hii Teck Kwong is a Malaysian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Sibu since 2012. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the same diocese from 2008 to 2012.
Francis Chan was a Singaporean bishop of the Catholic Church. After finishing high school in Singapore,he studied for the priesthood at College General in Penang and was ordained a priest in 1939. Chan first served as an assistant pastor in Ipoh until 1946,with a three year interruption due to World War II. He subsequently returned to his hometown after the Japanese occupation ended and served as parish priest there for nine years. When the Holy See created the first two Malaysian dioceses of Kuala Lumpur and Penang in 1955,Chan was appointed as bishop of the latter see. He was consecrated in August of that same year,becoming one of the first two local bishops from Malaysia. A Council Father of the Second Vatican Council,Chan attended two sessions held at St. Peter's Basilica in 1962 and 1964. He died of terminal cancer in 1967. Chan was dubbed "The Singing Bishop" due to his penchant for music.
Peter Chung Hoan Ting was the metropolitan archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kuching,Malaysia from 1976 to 2003,the first archbishop of the diocese.
