Installed 1981 Name Peter Kwong Predecessor N/A (post created) | Birth name Peter Kwong Kong-kit Denomination Anglican Term ended January 2007 | |
Province Hong Kong Anglican Church Other posts Archbishop of Hong KongBishop Emeritus of Hong Kong IslandBishop of Hong Kong IslandBishop of Hong Kong and Macau Education St. Paul's College, Hong Kong Diocese Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong Island | ||
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Archbishop Peter Kwong Kong-kit GBS (Chinese: 鄺廣傑) (born 1936) was the first Primate of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (i.e. Anglican Church), Archbishop of Hong Kong and Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong Island following the establishment of the Anglican Communion's Province of Hong Kong after the Handover. He was the first Chinese bishop of the diocese of Hong Kong and Macao.
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Kwong was chaplain of Chung Chi College and lectured at the Chinese University of Hong Kong until he was appointed diocesan secretary in 1979. In 1981 he became the Bishop of Hong Kong and Macao. Kwong was installed as the first Chinese archbishop of the Anglican Church on 25 October 1998.
His contributions to the community of Hong Kong are wide and varied. He participated in the discussions leading up to the reunification of Hong Kong with the Mainland through the Consultative Committee for the Basic Law, the Preparatory Committee for the SAR and the Selection Committee. He was Advisor on Hong Kong Affairs between 1992 and 1997. After the Handover he became a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Following his retirement in January 2007, he has become the Archbishop Emeritus of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui and the Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Hong Kong Island.
He is advisor to the Amity Foundation of China, Vice-President of the Church Missionary Society and patron of the Comfort Care Concern Group, an organisation for the terminally ill. He has been awarded the degree Doctor of Divinity honoris causa by Kenyon College, Bexley Hall and, in 2000, the University of Hong Kong.
In 2007 Kwong was succeeded by the new Archbishop and Primate, the Most Revd Paul Kwong.