Chapter 19: Religion
THE Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong, which includes Macau, covers twelve recognized parish churches and six mission chapels. In three of these, worship is conducted in English, and in the remainder in Chinese. St. John's Cathedral, originally established in 1842, was established as a Cathedral Church by Letters Patent from Queen Victoria in 1850. ì
In January 1959, Bishop R. O. Hall returned from furlough in England where he attended the Lambeth Conference of 1958. In April, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, and Mrs. Fisher visited the Colony. This was the first time an Arch- bishop of Canterbury ever visited Hong Kong. In May, the first Conference of Chinese Anglican Clergy for South-East Asia was held in Hong Kong and thirty four Chinese clergy from five different dioceses in South-East Asia participated. Dean F. S. Temple left for England in June to become the Senior Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Rev. J. C. L. Wong of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Kowloon, was appointed Assistant Bishop of Borneo in July.
Church and school extensions during the year have been marked by the almost complete rebuilding of the Diocesan Girls' School and St. Paul's Co-Educational College, and the opening of the new Kei Shun School at the Wong Tai Sin Resettlement Area.
The English-speaking Free Churches are represented by the Methodists, whose Church is on the Island; by two Union Churches, one on the Island and one in Kowloon; by the Emmanuel Church and the Alliance Church in Kowloon; and by the Baptist Church on the Island and Chapel in Kowloon. The London Missionary Society, whose chief representative arrived in Hong Kong within a year of the Colony'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,
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