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The first Roman Catholic cathedral of Hong Kong was built in 1843 at the junction of Pottinger Street and Wellington Street and was destroyed in a fire in 1859. The cathedral was rebuilt, but subsequently a different site was selected just above Caine Road by the Glenealy Ravine, where it is still located today. The cathedral was designed by Crawley and Company of London. Construction of the new building started in 1883. Services began in July 1886 under the auspices of the Apostolic Vicar Dominic Pozzoni and the first Mass was celebrated on 7 December 1888. Many of the early parishioners were Portuguese people who lived in the area around Shelley Street.
As the seat of the apostolic vicariate that preceded the establishment of the diocese in 1946, it was a cathedral from the time it was built, but it was not consecrated as a cathedral until 1938.
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