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| fullname = The Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist | image = St. John's Cathedral 09.JPG | image_size = 200px | alt = An ornate Gothic-style yellow church tower seen from below with a glass-surfaced skyscraper behind it. | caption = Church tower, east elevation, 2009 Cheung Kong Center in the background. | map_type = | map_size = | map_caption = | location = Central, Hong Kong | coordinates = | denomination = Anglican | consecration_year = | status = Cathedral | functional_status = | heritage designation = | leadership = The Very Revd Matthias Der | website = (St. John's Cathedral ) | architecture = yes | architect = | architecture_type = | architecture_style = English Gothic | founded_by = | funded_by = | general_contractor = | facade_direction = East | groundbreaking = 1847 | completed date = 1849 | construction_cost = | specifications = yes | capacity = | length = | width = | width_nave = | height_max = | spire_quantity = | spire_height = | materials = stucco, wood }} St. John's Cathedral (), officially The Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist and located at 4 Garden Road, Central, is an Anglican cathedral in Hong Kong. It is the Diocesan cathedral of the Diocese of Hong Kong Island and the focus of the Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui ( or SKH; also known as Hong Kong Anglican Church). It also houses the seat of the Archbishop of Hong Kong. The Anglican cathedral is one of the five cathedrals in the city. Two others are also Anglican, SKH Eastern Kowloon diocesan cathedral of Holy Trinity, Kowloon City, and SKH Western Kowloon diocesan cathedral of All Saints. One is Eastern Orthodox, the cathedral on Arbuthnot Road of the ecumenical patriarchate of the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, and the last is the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. St. John's Cathedral is the oldest surviving Western ecclesiastical building in Hong Kong, and the oldest Anglican church in the Far East,〔(Hong Kong Tourism Board will organise some training programs preparing the Tour Guides )〕 with its first Sunday service on Sunday, 11 March 1849. It was declared a monument of Hong Kong in 1996. The Cathedral is located at the centre of Powers of Hong Kong and is therefore surrounded by the Bank of China Tower, HSBC Building (''economic''), Legislative Council Building (''legislative''), Former Central Government Offices (''executive'') and the Court of Final Appeal (''judicial''). ==History== On the morning of 8 December 1941, the day after their attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked Hong Kong. On Christmas morning 1941 the Reverend Alaric P. Rose took the morning service in St John's with a congregation of one hundred, whilst shelling continued on the island. During the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong, the cathedral was converted into a club for the Japanese. Many of the original fittings were stripped out, including the original stained glass windows. On 9 September 1945, the first service after the arrival of the Royal Navy was held in the Cathedral. () In 1981, Peter Kwong Kong Kit became the first Chinese Bishop of Hong Kong. The site of St. John's Cathedral is the only freehold land in Hong Kong, granted in fee simple pursuant to s.6(1) of the Church of England Trust Ordinance (Cap.1014). All other land tenure in Hong Kong is leasehold in nature. On 5 June 2012, there was a service of thanksgiving at the cathedral in honour of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.〔http://ukinhongkong.fco.gov.uk/en/visiting-uk/jubilee-2012/hk-events〕〔http://ukinhongkong.fco.gov.uk/resources/en/pdf/644553582/jubilee-st-john〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. John's Cathedral (Hong Kong)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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