The

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Ng Moon Hing, P.J.N. (; born 12 November 1955) is the

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. Until February 2020 he also served as

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of the

Church of the Province of South East Asia The Church of the Province of South East Asia is an autonomous member of the Anglican Communion, created in 1996 with the four dioceses of Kuching, Sabah, Singapore and West Malaysia. There are approximately 98,000 Anglicans within the pro ...

. Ng was born on 12 November 1955 in the city of

Ipoh Ipoh (, ) is the capital city of the Malaysian States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Perak. Located on the Kinta River, it is nearly north of Kuala Lumpur and southeast of George Town, Penang, George Town in neighbouring Penang ...

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. He studied for a

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civil engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

from

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, graduating in 1978. After graduating, he worked as a civil engineer, taking part in the construction of Lumut Naval Base and several bridges in Malaysia. Ng began to train for Christian ministry, and, in 1985, he graduated

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from Seminari Teologi Malaysia (STM). He was ordained

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in June of that year. Subsequently, he was ordained

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in February of the following year. He was awarded a further

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degree from STM in 1989. In 1991, Ng was instituted as the

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of St. Peter's Church,

. In 1996, he was collated as a

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of St. Mary's Cathedral, Kuala Lumpur, and in 2001, he was appointed

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of the Lower North Archdeaconry. On 5 May 2007, Ng was consecrated

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in his cathedral in

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, becoming the 4th Bishop of West Malaysia, in succession to Bishop Tan Sri Datuk Dr. Lim Cheng Ean. His principal consecrator was the then Archbishop of South East Asia Dr. John Chew, the

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. Dr. Rowan Williams, then

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, was also numbered among his consecrators. Ng served a term as chairman of the Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM), from 2009 to 2012. In 2011, Ng was made Knight Commander of the Distinguished Order of Service for the State ('' Panglima Jasa Negara'', PJN) by the

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, granting him the right to the Malaysian title '

'. On 2 September 2015, Ng was elected to become 5th

of the

by an Extraordinary General Meeting of the church's Synod meeting in

Sandakan Sandakan () formerly known at various times as Elopura, is the capital of the Sandakan District in Sabah, Malaysia. It is the second largest city in Sabah after Kota Kinabalu. It is located on the Sandakan Peninsula and east coast of the sta ...

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. He began his four-year term of office on the 22 February 2016, succeeding Archbishop

Bolly Lapok Bolly anak Lapok (born 10 August 1952) was the fourth Metropolitan Archbishop and Primate of the Anglicanism, Anglican Church of the Province of South East Asia as well as the Bishop of Kuching. An ethnic Iban people, Iban, Bolly was the first ...

, and ended in February 2020. He will continue to serve as Bishop of West Malaysia until his retirement in November 2020.Daily Express (Malaysia) http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news/147054/installation-of-melter-as-archbishop-tomorrow/ retrieved 29 February 2020 Ng's memoir ''From Village to Village'' recounts his fifteen years of experience working with Anglican Village Ministries (AVM), which he founded in 1993.

References

*The Anglican News 星馬教聲, Issue 420, August 2007

External links

Ng Moon Hing's blog
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