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Religion

THE Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong, which includes Macau, covers sixteen parish churches and six mission chapels. Three of these worship in English and the others in Chinese. St John's Cathedral, founded in 1842, was established as a Cathedral Church by Letters Patent from Queen Victoria in 1850.

There have been important changes in the leadership of Chinese- speaking and English-speaking Churches during the year. The Chinese Church has seen the death of Canon Paul Ts'o, for 32 years Vicar of St Paul's Church, the retirement of Archdeacon Lee Kau-yan from All Saints, and the resignation of Canon Edward Lee from Holy Trinity in order to resume his work as Canon Missioner. They have been succeeded in their parishes by younger men. The Cathedral has welcomed as its new Dean the Very Rev Barry Till, who left his work as Dean of Jesus College, Cambridge, in order to serve in Hong Kong. The Rev R. W. Howard, Assistant Priest at Great St Mary's in Cambridge, has come to Christ Church.

The English-speaking Free Churches on the Island are the Union Church, the Methodists and the Baptists; and in Kowloon there are the second Union Church, Emmanuel, the Alliance Church, and the Baptist Chapel. 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.

The growth in size and vigour of the Chinese-speaking Churches has continued and their work is spreading further into the resettle- ment areas, the new townships and the New Territories. The Church of Christ in China (within which union the London Missionary Society now works) opened and dedicated its Morrison Memorial Centre in Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, Dr S. C. Leung officiating at the ceremony. Later the Heep Woh School