Bishop of Victoria

The Bishop of Victoria,^[1] Hong Kong^[2] was (from 1849 to 1951) the Ordinary of a corporation sole^[3] including Hong Kong and South China^[4] that ministered to 20,000 Anglicans.

Bishops

Further information (in Chinese (Taiwan)): Diocese of Victoria [zh-tw]

• 1849 – 1865 (ret.): George Smith^[5]
• 1867 – 1872 (res.):^[6] Charles Alford (later a Vicar in England)
• 1874 – 1897 (ret.): John Burdon^[5] (returned to missionary service)
• 1898 – 1906 (d.): Joseph Hoare
• 1907 – 1920 (res.): Gerard Lander (later Assistant Bishop of St Albans)
• 1920 – 1932 (res.): Ridley Duppuy (later Assistant Bishop of Worcester)
• 1932 – 1951: Ronald Hall (became the first Bishop of Hong Kong and Macao)

Assistant bishops

Among the assistant bishop of the diocese, there were:

• Bishops of Guangzhou: Mok Sau Tsang (former Archdeacon of Canton) from 1935 (consecrated 25 January at the cathedral by Hall),^[7] Victor Halward from 1946, and Mo-Yung In from 1950;
• Bishops of Yunnan-Guizhou: Andrew Y. Y. Tsu from 1940
• Quentin Huang was consecrated Bishop of Kunming in 1946, and became first Bishop of Yunkwei upon that diocese's erection in 1948;^[8]
• Mo-Yung In was consecrated Bishop of Canton in 1951^[9]
• and James C. L. Wong was Bishop of Jesselton from 1960 until his 1965 translation to Taiwan.

Archdeacons

Archdeacons during Ronald Hall's time included: Lee Kau Yan, Archdeacon of Hong Kong from 1946; Tsang Kei Ngok, Archdeacon of Beihan from 1946; Mo-Yung In, of Beihan from 1949; and Chung Yan Laap (John), of Hong Kong from 1965.^[10]

Notes

1. "Page 1552 | Issue 20977, 11 May 1849 | London Gazette | the Gazette".
2. National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives^{[permanent dead link‍]}
3. Bishop of Victoria incorporation ordinance
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
5. Handbook to the Diocese of Victoria (Hong Kong and South China) 1924. Chapter III. The Story of the Past. pp. 10–
6. "Church news: Retired colonials". Church Times. No. 479. 5 April 1872. p. 156. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 23 December 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
7. "Church news. (Col. D & page 94, col. A)". Church Times. No. 3757. 25 January 1935. p. 93. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via UK Press Online archives.
8. "Anglican bishop held by Chinese bandits". Church Times. No. 4538. 27 January 1950. p. 59. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 1 January 2022 – via UK Press Online archives.
9. Chan-Yeung, p. 217
10. Chan-Yeung, Moira M. W. (December 2015). The Practical Prophet: Bishop Ronald O. Hall of Hong Kong and His Legacies. ISBN 9789888208777.