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Religion
THERE are 16 recognized parish churches and six mission chapels in the Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong, which includes Macau. In three of these worship is conducted in English and in the remainder in Chinese. St John's Cathedral, founded in 1842, was established as a Cathedral Church by Letters Patent from Queen Victoria in 1850.
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The foundation stones of two new parish churches and three schools were laid during the year, and the membership of every church in the Diocese was reported to be showing a-marked increase.
After many years of outstanding service as a layman, priest and headmaster, the Rev Canon George She retired and was succeeded at the Diocesan Boys' School by Mr S. J. Lowcock.
In_addition to the Anglican Church the English-speaking Protestant Churches on the Island include the Union Church, the Methodist and the Baptist Churches. In Kowloon there are the second Union Church, Emmanuel, the Alliance Church and the Baptist Church. The London Missionary Society, whose chief representative arrived in Hong Kong within a year of the cession of the Colony to Great Britain, plays a prominent part in education and medicine, and runs the Nethersole Hospital, one of the Colony's foremost medical institutions.
There is a small Russian Orthodox congregation, divided into adherents who recognize the present Patriarch of Moscow and others who do not. The former have their own Church, founded in 1934. The latter, who have inter-communion with the Anglican Church, hold their services in St Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, and are known as the Orthodox Church.
The Chinese-speaking Churches continued to display a remark- able vigour during 1961, and new Church buildings and enlarged congregations were visible in all parts of the Colony. Nor is it a tale of material advance only, for efforts are being made to train