| Crown of Thorns' Church | |
| Denomination: | Anglican Communion |
| Churchmanship: | Anglicanism |
| Diocese: | Western Kowloon |
| Province: | Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui |
| Vicar: | Jonathan Chee |
| Website: | http://www.skhthorns.org/ |
Crown of Thorns' Church (Cantonese:, Yale:), located at 67 Texaco Road, the New Territories, is an Anglican church in Hong Kong. It forms a parish in the Diocese of Western Kowloon under Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. The vicar of the parish is Jonathan Chee, who is also the current General Secretary of the Diocese of Western Kowloon.
See main article: Crown of Thorns. In Christianity, the Crown of Thorns, one of the instruments of the Passion, was the woven chaplet of thorn branches worn by Jesus before his crucifixion. It is mentioned in the Gospels of Matthew (Matthew 27:29), Mark (Mark 15:17), and John (John 1919:2, 5) and is often alluded to by the early Christian Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and others.
John the Evangelist describes it thus (KJV, ch. 19):
The Church was found in 1965.[1] The first vicar was Peter Kwong, the former Archbishop of Hong Kong.