The Battle of Hong Kong,also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong,was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor,forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong around the same time that Japan declared war on Great Britain. The Hong Kong garrison consisted of British,Indian and Canadian units,also the Auxiliary Defence Units and Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC).
The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is a late 19th-century English Gothic revival church that serves as the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong. It is located in the Mid-Levels area of the city at 16 Caine Road.
The Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (abbreviated SKH),also known as the Hong Kong Anglican Church (Episcopal),is the Anglican church in Hong Kong and Macao. It is the 38th Province of the Anglican Communion. It is also one of the major denominations in Hong Kong and the first in the Anglican Communion to ordain a female priest.
The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when the governor of Hong Kong,Sir Mark Young,surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941. His surrender occurred after 18 days of fierce fighting against the Japanese forces that invaded the territory. The occupation lasted for three years and eight months until Japan surrendered at the end of the Second World War. The length of the period later became a metonym of the occupation.
Peter Kwong Kong-kit was the first Primate of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui,Archbishop of Hong Kong and Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong Island following the establishment of the Anglican Communion's Province of Hong Kong after the Handover. He was the first Chinese bishop of the diocese of Hong Kong and Macao.
South Asians are part of the Hong Kong society. As of the 2021 by-census,there were at least 101,969 persons of South Asian descent in Hong Kong. Many trace their roots in Hong Kong as far back as when the Indian subcontinent was still under British colonial rule and as a legacy of the British Empire,their nationality issues remain largely unsettled. However,recently an increasing number of them have acquired Chinese nationality.
HMS Tamar was a Royal Navy troopship built by the Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town,London,and launched in Britain in 1863. She served as a supply ship from 1897 to 1941,and gave her name to the shore station HMS Tamar in Hong Kong.
Florence Li Tim-Oi was the first woman to be ordained to the priesthood in the Anglican Communion,on 25 January 1944.
The Lutheran Church—Hong Kong Synod is a confessional Lutheran church body in Hong Kong. The LCHKS has nearly 40 congregations. The LCHKS grew from the China mission of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS),which was established in the early 1900s. Many of the LCHKS parishes and schools are listed below.
Paul Kwong CStJ is a retired Anglican bishop from Hong Kong,who served as Archbishop and Primate of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui,Bishop of Hong Kong Island,and Bishop of Macau from 2007 to 2021. Kwong is also the current chair of the Anglican Consultative Council,as the first sitting primate to lead an ACC meeting. Kwong is also a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) taking a pro-Beijing stance.
St. George's Cathedral is a Church of South India cathedral in Chennai,India. The cathedral was built in 1815. St. George's occupies an important place in the history of Christianity in India,as the Church of South India was inaugurated here on 27 September 1947. It marked the breaking down of ecclesiastical barriers between Protestants of various traditions.
The Diocese of Hong Kong Island is one of the three dioceses under the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui,a province of the Anglican Communion. Its territory covers Hong Kong Island and the outlying islands. The cathedral of the diocese,St. John's Cathedral,is the oldest surviving Western ecclesiastical building in Hong Kong. It was constructed in the 1840s.
William Thornton Bate was a British Royal Navy officer and surveyor. He served in First Anglo-Chinese War and Second Anglo-Chinese War. He died during the Battle of Canton in 1857.
Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui,known in English as the Holy Catholic Church in China or Anglican-Episcopal Province of China,was the Anglican Church in China from 1912 until about 1958,when it ceased operations.
Ronald Owen Hall was an English Anglican missionary bishop in Hong Kong and China in the mid 20th century. As an emergency measure during the Second World War,with China under Japanese occupation,he ordained Florence Li Tim-Oi as the first woman priest in the Anglican Communion.
John Gilbert Hindley Baker was a British Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Hong Kong and Macao from 1966 to 1980.
The Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao was an extra-provincial diocese in the Anglican Communion serving Hong Kong and Macau. It existed from 1951 until 1998,when it was reorganized as an autonomous Anglican church,the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui.
Holy Trinity Cathedral,in Kowloon,Hong Kong,is a cathedral for the Anglican Eastern Kowloon diocese. It was established in 1890,making it one of the oldest Anglican churches in Hong Kong. The cathedral is one of the three Anglican cathedrals of the Hong Kong Anglican church.
Andrew Chan Au-ming is the Archbishop of Hong Kong and Primate of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui since January 2021 and the Bishop of its Western Kowloon diocese since March 2012. He was ordained as deacon in 1991 and priest in 1992. He was priest-in-charge of Holy Spirit Church,vicar of St. Luke's Church and the first Chinese dean of St. John's Cathedral.
Between 1923 and 1936,the Imperial War Graves Commission erected a series of memorial tablets in French and Belgian cathedrals to commemorate the British Empire dead of the First World War. The tablets were erected in towns in which British Army or Empire troops had been quartered.
