Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency, The Most Reverend |
Domingos Lam Ka-tseung | |
Honorific-Suffix: | GLM |
Bishop of Macau | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Macau |
Term Start: | 6 October 1988 |
Ended: | 30 June 2003 |
Predecessor: | Arquimínio Rodrigues da Costa |
Successor: | José Lai |
Ordination: | 27 December 1953 |
Consecration: | 8 September 1987 |
Consecrated By: | Arquimínio Rodrigues da Costa |
Birth Date: | 9 April 1928 |
Birth Place: | British Hong Kong |
Death Place: | Macau |
Buried: | São Miguel Arcanjo Cemetery, Macau |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
Alma Mater: | St. Joseph's Seminary and Church |
Coat Of Arms: | Coat of arms of Domingos Lam Ka Tseung.svg |
Domingos Lam Ka-tseung | |
Dipstyle: | His Excellency The Most Reverend |
Offstyle: | Your Excellency |
Relstyle: | Bishop |
Domingos Lam Ka Tseung (; 9 April 1928 – 27 July 2009) [1] was the first Chinese-born bishop (in Hong Kong then under British sovereignty) in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau.[2] On 26 May 1987, he was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Macau and succeeded Arquimínio Rodrigues da Costa, the last Portuguese bishop, on 6 October 1988. He resigned on 30 June 2003, and died aged 81 in 2009.[3]