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RELIGION
During the year Hong Kong, which was formerly part of the Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong and South China, was reconstituted as a separate Anglican Diocese.
The principal places of Anglican worship are St. John's Cathedral, built in 1847 and established as a Cathedral Church by Letters Patent from Queen Victoria in 1850, St. Andrew's Kowloon and Christchurch Kowloon Tong. In these three churches services are conducted in English. There are five parish churches in the urban area and four Anglican mission churches in all of which services are held in Cantonese, and at Christchurch Kowloon Tong there are regular Anglican services in Mandarin. In the New Territories there are several parish churches and there are two Anglican churches in Macao, in one of which services are occasionally held in English.
The Anglican Church makes a notable contribution to secondary education in the Colony by administering, among other schools, the Diocesan Boys' and Girls' Schools, St. Paul's College, St. Stephen's Girls' College and St. Stephen's College, Stanley.
The Methodist Church completed during the year its combined church, school, church hall and vocational training centre, the building of which was started in 1950, in Kowloon. The Union Church, which is among the first Christian foundations in Hong Kong, has church buildings in Hong Kong and Kowloon, the former being a fine new hall in Kennedy Road erected in 1949. The London Missionary Society, whose first representative arrived in the Colony within one year of Hong Kong's cession to Great Britain, plays a prominent part in education and medicine and runs the Nethersole Hospital, one of the Colony's foremost medical institutions.
The Roman Catholic Church in Hong Kong was originally under the administration of a Missionary with the ecclesiastical title of Prefect Apostolic. In 1874, as a result of the increasing number of adherents to the Roman Catholic faith, a Bishop was appointed to the territory
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