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.
Datuk Seri Panglima Stephen Robert Evans SPDK, JP was a politician, public administrator and author from Sabah, Malaysia.
La Salle Secondary School, Kota Kinabalu is a co-educational secondary school for boys and girls and one of the oldest schools in Kota Kinabalu on the coast of Borneo in East Malaysia.
The Diocese of Sabah is an Anglican diocese which covers Sabah and Labuan in Malaysia. Founded in 1962, the see was originally part of the much larger Diocese of Labuan and its Dependencies which was established in 1855. Following the carving out of the Diocese of Singapore in 1909 from this last ecclesiastical territory, the area of the present-day Diocese fell under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Labuan & Sarawak, which was reorganised as the Diocese of Borneo in 1949. In 1962, the latter diocese was divided into two, forming the Diocese of Kuching and the Diocese of Jesselton, which was renamed the Diocese of Sabah when the capital city was given the new name of Kota Kinabalu in 1967.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in Sabah, Malaysia. The archdiocese is the oldest ecclesiastical territory in Malaysia, with a long history slowly rising along with the Catholic population from a prefecture to an archdiocese. Its cathedral archepiscopal see is Sacred Heart Cathedral, Kota Kinabalu. The patron saint of the archdiocese is St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
John Lee was born on 5 October 1933 in Jesselton, North Borneo. He was ordained a priest on 27 December 1964, and appointed Bishop of Kota Kinabalu on 31 March 1987. His episcopal ordination was on 26 June 1987. On 23 May 2008 he was appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu when the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese. He was the president of the Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei Episcopal Commission for Family Life. He officially retired on 24 January 2013 and was succeeded by John Wong Soo Kau.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei(CBCMSB) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the nations of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.
Datuk Peter Joinod Mojuntin, PGDK was a politician in the Malaysian state of Sabah and Minister of Municipal Administration in the government of Tun Fuad Stephens. He died along with other politicians in the Double Six Plane Crash in Kota Kinabalu.
Sacred Heart Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu, and the seat of its current archbishop, John Wong Soo Kau. The current cathedral was built from 1979 to 1981, with its dedication held on 21 November 1981.
Tan Sri Datuk Peter Lo Su Yin was Chief Minister of Sabah from January 1965 to May 1967. He was a member of the Sabah Chinese Association (SCA).
St. Mary's Cathedral, or Sandakan Cathedral, is the cathedral and mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sandakan in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia.5.840196°N 118.111502°E Founded in 1883, it is the oldest church in Sandakan.
Maktab Nasional is a private Catholic mission secondary school located in Likas, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu.
Datuk Wong Tien Fatt, also known as Stephen Wong, was a Malaysian politician. He won to be the Member of Parliament for Sandakan in Sabah for two terms (2013–2019). He was also a nominated member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly and the Minister of People's Health and Wellbeing of Sabah (2018–2019). Wong was also state chairman of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) for Sabah (2015–2019).
The Penampang District is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah, part of the West Coast Division which includes the districts of Kota Belud, Kota Kinabalu, Papar, Penampang, Putatan, Ranau and Tuaran. The capital of the district is in Penampang Town.
Datuk Simon Michael Fung Kui Heong was a Malaysian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was named as the third Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate of Kota Kinabalu and Titular Bishop of Catabum Castra in 1975, and then was elevated as the first Bishop of the Diocese of Kota Kinabalu in 1977, with both positions given by Pope Paul VI. He was the first Sabahan to ever become a Bishop in Malaysia. He died on 16 November 1985, two days after his 10th episcopal ordination anniversary.
Cornelius Piong is a Malaysian prelate of the Catholic Church. He became Bishop of Keningau in 1993.
Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Mohd Bakri bin Mohd Zinin was a former senior police officer who served as Deputy Inspector-General of Police.
Datuk Julius Dusin Gitom is a Malaysian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as the first bishop of the Diocese of Sandakan since 2007.
