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6 unusual facts about Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong


Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong

On 8 July 2004, the Legislative Council passed the Education (Amendment) Bill.

His views on government policies were often at odds with those of Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, also a Catholic.

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The present Cardinal Priest of this Titular Church is Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, SDB (Traditional Chinese: 陳日君樞機), the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong in China.

School-Based Management Policy

On 7 December 2005, the Catholic Diocese filed a writ for a judicial review on the amended Education Ordinance on the basis that it had violated the Basic Law.

After passage at Legco, the school-based management policy ran into fierce oppositions from the Catholic, Anglican, Methodist and other major church organisations whose schools make up to one quarter of all schools in Hong Kong.

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A vicar general of the territory's Roman Catholic diocese was critical.



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