John Tong Hon
1939 births | alumni of the chinese university of hong kong | bishops of hong kong | chinese bishops | living people
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John Tong Hon (born Hong Kong, 31 July, 1939) is a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He earned a master's degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong before going on to doctoral studies at the Pontifical Urbaniana University. In 1992, he became vice-bishop of the Church's Hong Kong Diocese, and was appointed auxiliary bishop of Hong Kong four years later, on 13 September, 1996. He was named to the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples in 2003, after working for 24 years with their Hong Kong's Holy Spirit Study Center. On 30 January 2008, Pope Benedict XVI, raised him to coadjutator bishop from former his position of Hong Kong auxiliary bishop. He will take over from Cardinal Joseph Zen upon Zen's retirement.
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