Archbishop John Wong Soo Kau

WONG, John Soo Kau. Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu. Coadjutor Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu. Born: 6 June 1968. Ordained Priest: 21 January 1999. Ordained Bishop: 1 October 2010. Installed as Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu: 24 January 2013. Archbishop John Wong was born on 6 June 1968 in Sandakan. He was ordained priest on January 21, 1999. As a priest, he has served four years at the cathedral parish. Later, after returning from his studies in Rome where he obtained a licentiate in spirituality, he became the director of the aspirants at the Catholic Diocesan Centre and vice-director of the Initiation Year of St Peter’s College Karamunsing. He has also served as the spiritual adviser to the Bible Commission from 2006 to 2007. Up until his episcopal ordination on 1 October 2010, he was serving as the spiritual adviser to the Youth Commission, exercising his priestly ministry at the cathedral and its subparish Church of Mary Immaculate, especially among the Chinese-speaking parishioners. He was 42 at the time of his episcopal ordination.