The Third Apostolic Vicar of Hong Kong, Paderno d'Adda born Monsignor Domenico Pozzoni was ordained priest through the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions on March 1, 1885. A pioneer missionary in the inland districts of the Hong Kong Vicariate, he traveled almost continuously within the Po On, Kwei Hsin (later Waiyeung), and Hoi Fung Districts. Summoned to the city to assist Msgr. Piazzoli in May 1904, accompanying him back to Italy, upon his death he returned to Hong Kong in January of the following year as his successor, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Tavium on October 1.
Visiting even to the remotest parts of the vicariate, he played an important role in setting up the Hong Kong University in 1912 and carefully led the church through the difficult period of the Great War. Suffering a heart attack following a pastoral visit to the Saikung District in December 1923, the Bishop passed away a few weeks later. Originally interred at St. Michael's Cemetery in Happy Valley, in 2009 his his remains, along with those of the other Hong Kong Ordinaries buried at St. Michael's, were transferred to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and re-interred in a specially constructed crypt on the initiative of Cardinal Joseph Zen.
Visiting even to the remotest parts of the vicariate, he played an important role in setting up the Hong Kong University in 1912 and carefully led the church through the difficult period of the Great War. Suffering a heart attack following a pastoral visit to the Saikung District in December 1923, the Bishop passed away a few weeks later. Originally interred at St. Michael's Cemetery in Happy Valley, in 2009 his his remains, along with those of the other Hong Kong Ordinaries buried at St. Michael's, were transferred to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and re-interred in a specially constructed crypt on the initiative of Cardinal Joseph Zen.
The Third Apostolic Vicar of Hong Kong, Paderno d'Adda born Monsignor Domenico Pozzoni was ordained priest through the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions on March 1, 1885. A pioneer missionary in the inland districts of the Hong Kong Vicariate, he traveled almost continuously within the Po On, Kwei Hsin (later Waiyeung), and Hoi Fung Districts. Summoned to the city to assist Msgr. Piazzoli in May 1904, accompanying him back to Italy, upon his death he returned to Hong Kong in January of the following year as his successor, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Tavium on October 1.
Visiting even to the remotest parts of the vicariate, he played an important role in setting up the Hong Kong University in 1912 and carefully led the church through the difficult period of the Great War. Suffering a heart attack following a pastoral visit to the Saikung District in December 1923, the Bishop passed away a few weeks later. Originally interred at St. Michael's Cemetery in Happy Valley, in 2009 his his remains, along with those of the other Hong Kong Ordinaries buried at St. Michael's, were transferred to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and re-interred in a specially constructed crypt on the initiative of Cardinal Joseph Zen.
Visiting even to the remotest parts of the vicariate, he played an important role in setting up the Hong Kong University in 1912 and carefully led the church through the difficult period of the Great War. Suffering a heart attack following a pastoral visit to the Saikung District in December 1923, the Bishop passed away a few weeks later. Originally interred at St. Michael's Cemetery in Happy Valley, in 2009 his his remains, along with those of the other Hong Kong Ordinaries buried at St. Michael's, were transferred to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and re-interred in a specially constructed crypt on the initiative of Cardinal Joseph Zen.
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