Bishops Details
Most Rev John Hationghock, DD, SSD, PSBS
Archbishop,ARCHDIOCESE OF KUCHING
Address
Contact Details
Telephone : 082-242634
Fax : 082-425724
Website : http://kuchingcatholic.org/
Event
Date
Date of Birth :
05-03-1947
Ordained as Priest :
14-12-1972
Appointed Auxiliary Bishop :
17-01-1998
Ordained Bishop :
06-06-1998
Appointed Archbishop :
23-06-2003
Installed as Archbishop :
16-07-2003
Brief History
Archbishop John Ha Tiong Hock (born 5 March 1947 in Kuching, Sarawak), was ordained a priest on 14 December 1972, and was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Kuching on 17 January 1998. His episcopal ordination was on 6 June 1998. He was appointed Archbishop of Kuching on 23 June 2003, and was installed on 16 July 2003. He is the president of the Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei Episcopal Biblical Commission.
STATISTICAL SUMMARY
- Approximate population : 1,159,167
- Catholic population : 197,134
- Parishes : 11
- Outstations/Mass Centres : 341
- Diocesan Priests : 22
- Mill Hill Missionaries : 3
- Franciscan Friars : 3
- Franciscan Sisters : 56
- Carmelite Sisters : 13
- De La Salle Brothers : 2
- Full time Catechists : 26
- Seminarians : 5
- Jesuit Priests : 4
- Claretian Priests : 3
Malaysian Church News
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- CWL Tg Aru celebrates 50 years of ministry
- Commissioning for Family Life members
- Suhakam: Equal parental rights must be upheld
- Ayer Tawar chapel celebrates feast of St Anne
- Cabinet scraps mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking
- Former parishioners pay a visit to Msgr Thomas
