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Imperial to International: A History of St. John’s Cathedral, Hong Kong

By Stuart Wolfendale

Book information

Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9888139878, 9789888139873
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2471483 bytes)
Series
Sheng Kung Hui: Historical Studies of Anglican Christianity in China
Pages
368\375
Time added
2017-04-27 21:40:59
Protestantism;Anglican;Baptist;Book of Common Pray

Description

Founded in 1849, St John's Cathedral is the oldest neo-Gothic cathedral in East Asia and China's oldest surviving Anglican church still in operation. In its early decades, it was a center of colonial life in Hong Kong. More recently, it has opened itself widely to other communities in Hong Kong, becoming a truly international church with services held in several languages. Drawing on extensive archives and written in a lively style, this first comprehensive history of St John's traces the cathedral's roles as a colonial parish church, a bishop's seat for a diocese that once covered the whole of China and beyond, and a center of worship for a modern cosmopolitan community.Imperial to International is the first volume in the new series Sheng Kung Hui: Historical Studies in Chinese Anglicanism, copublished by the Hong Kong University Press and the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui.

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