Peter Chung Hoan Ting (born 10 September 1928) was the

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of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kuching The Archdiocese of Kuching (; Malay: ''Keuskupan Agung Kuching''; Mandarin: ''古晋总教区'') is a Metropolitan Latin archbishopric of the Catholic Church in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, covering the western part of the state, up from Lund ...

, Malaysia from 1976 to 2003, the first archbishop of the diocese. Chung entered the diocesan minor seminary of the Diocese of Laohekou in 1940. In 1947, he entered the Regional Major Seminary at

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. However, in 1949, during the communist insurgency, the entire seminary was moved to

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and later to

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. In 1954, he graduated from the seminary and arrived in

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for his priestly ordination on 26 September. He was ordained by Bishop John Vos and became the first priest to be ordained in

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. In 1966, he was sent to study canon law in

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and obtained a Doctorate of Canon Law. On 1 September 1970,

Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI (born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXII ...

appointed Chung as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Kota Kinabalu and Titular Bishop of Acelum. He was consecrated in

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by Bishop James Buis on 15 November 1970. In 1972, he became the Vicar Apostolic of Kota Kinabalu. On 30 January 1975, Chung was appointed as Vicar Apostolic of Kuching. The Ecclesiastical Province of East Malaysia was established and Apostolic Vicariate of Kuching was raised to be an

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and Chung became its first archbishop on 31 May 1975. On 21 June 2003, he retired and handed over the archdiocese to his auxiliary bishop,

John Ha Tiong Hock Malay titles#State titles, Dato John Ha Tiong Hock (born 5 March 1947) is a Malaysian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kuching, Archbishop of Kuching, from 2003 to 2017. Previously, he serve ...

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