Joseph Hii Teck Kwong


Joseph Hii Teck Kwong D.D., is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Diocese of Sibu. He had been serving as an auxiliary bishop in the same diocese from the year 2008 to 2012.

Biography

Hii entered St. Peter's major seminary in Kuching, in 1986, to study philosophy and theology. He was ordained a priest on 25 March 1993 at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sibu. On 25 January 2008, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Hii as Auxiliary Bishop of Sibu and Titular Bishop of Castellum Medianum. He was consecrated on 1 May 2008 by Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, Apostolic Delegate to Malaysia. Co-consecrators were John Ha Tiong Hock, Archbishop of Kuching and Dominic Su Haw Chiu, Bishop of Sibu.
On 24 December 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Hii as Bishop of Diocese of Sibu to succeed Bishop Dominic Su Haw Chiu.