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Archbishop Paul Kwong to deliver Godfrey Day Memorial Lecture
Newly appointed Archbishop and Primate of Hong Kong, the Most Revd Paul Kwong will deliver this year’s Godfrey Day Memorial Lecture hosted by Dublin University Far Eastern Mission on Thursday, 19th April 2007 at 7.00 p.m. in the Walton Theatre, Trinity College Dublin. Archbishop Kwong will speak about the transformation of the Anglican Church in Hong Kong from a colonial legacy to a truly Chinese Church.
The lecture will be chaired by the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd Dr John Neill, who is a patron of Dublin University Far Eastern Mission (DUFEM) and who attended Archbishop Kwong’s enthronement in Hong Kong in January.
Archbishop Kwong will be available for interview during his stay in Ireland.
Biographical note:
Archbishop Paul Kwong’s great–grandfather was one of the first Chinese Anglican priests. Archbishop Kwong was ordained in 1982, was curate of Holy Trinity Church for four years, Vicar of St. Matthias’s Church for more than 10 years, and is the founder of two mission churches, Saint Philip’s and the Church of the Ascension. He was consecrated Bishop of Hong Kong island on 25 March 2006, and was elected Archbishop and Primate of Hong Kong on 3 February last.
A graduate of Lingnan College, Hong Kong (BA, English Literature), and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (MDiv, 1982), he is a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham, and has a DD from Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. Over the last 25 years, he has been Chairman of the Diocesan Youth Committee, lecturer at Minghua Theological College, assistant to the Archbishop, Provincial General Secretary, and a member of the Anglican Communion’s Mission Commission.
Dublin University Far Eastern Mission (DUFEM)
Dublin University Far Eastern Mission is a mission agency of the Church of Ireland founded in 1885 in Trinity College Dublin by staff members, graduates and students of TCD as the Dublin University Fukien Mission. The Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin are patrons of DUFEM. Each year, DUFEM sends students from Trinity College Dublin and the Church of Ireland Theological College to work with the Church in East Asia, and in recent years has built strong links with churches and theological colleges in Shanghai, Guizhou, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The chair of DUFEM, is the Revd Patrick Comerford (087–66–35–116; [email protected]).
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