14 Facts About Dominic Chan

Dominic Chan Chi-ming is the former vicar general of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong.

Dominic Chan serves as parish priest of the city's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

Dominic Chan was ordained priest by Cardinal John Baptist Wu in 1979.

Dominic Chan later led funds to restore a chapel on Yim Tin Tsai Island in compliance with a UNESCO restoration project in 2016.

Dominic Chan served as vicar general of the Diocese of Hong Kong from December 1992 until January 2019.

Dominic Chan was chosen together with John Tong Hon, and served with him until the latter's appointment as coadjutor bishop of Hong Kong in 2008.

Dominic Chan has served as vicar general alongside Michael Yeung, Pierre Lam, Joseph Ha, Peter Choy, and Benedict Lam.

Dominic Chan is an Ex-officio Member of the Council of Priests, the Diocesan Personnel Commission, the Hong Kong Catholic Board of Education, the Hong Kong Catholic Education Development Committee, the Central Management Committee for Diocesan Schools and the Diocesan Building and Development Commission.

Dominic Chan visited former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang while Tsang's trials were ongoing.

In 2017, Dominic Chan presided over the ceremonies in which the Our Lady of Fatima Statue passed through the territory on its first stop en route to Portugal to celebrate the centennial of the Marian apparition.

Dominic Chan has been the Parish Priest of the Hong Kong Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception since 2000.

On 13 February 2006, Dominic Chan expressed his view on the then possibility of the elevation of Joseph Zen, the Bishop of Hong Kong, to Cardinal.

Dominic Chan said although he was still waiting for a formal announcement, he expected Zen to be elevated to cardinal in the next consistory.

Dominic Chan believed that his elevation will show how important the Holy See values the church in China, and that it would be an honour to have a cardinal to head the diocese.