- Enrico Valtorta
infobox bishopstyles
name=Enrico Valtorta
dipstyle=The Right Reverend
offstyle=Your Excellency
relstyle=Monsignor
deathstyle=none |Enrico Valtorta (Traditional Chinese:恩理覺主教) (
May 14 1883 -September 3 1951 ) was the lastApostolic Vicar and the firstRoman Catholic bishop ofHong Kong . He was born inItaly atCarate Brianza , and was ordained priest onMarch 30 1907 for the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME ). He arrived inHong Kong onOctober 5 1907 and from 1909 to 1911 was apostolic missionary for Nam Tau (San On District) andSai Kung (New Territories );Rector ofSt. Joseph's Church at Garden Road and teacher atseminary in 1913;Chaplain toVictoria Gaol (1921-1925).Appointed 4thVicar Apostolic ofHong Kong onMarch 8 1926 , was consecratedTitular Bishop ofLerus onJune 13 1926 . Hong KongApostolic Vicariate was raised to aDiocese onApril 11 1946 . Bishop Valtorta was installed asBishop of the Hong Kong Diocese onOctober 31 1948 . He died inHong Kong in 1953.Valtorta College inTai Po was named after him.ee also
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* [http://archives.catholic.org.hk/administrators/valtorta.htm His Biography by the Catholic Church]
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