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Besides [[Hong Kong Island]], the vicariate included Kowloon (which became part of the colony in 1860), [[Lantau Island]] (part of the colony since 1898) and the three continental districts of [[Bao'an County|San-on]] ({{zh|t=新安|labels=no}}), {{ill|Kwei Hsin|zh-tw|%E5%BD%92%E5%96%84%E5%8E%BF}} ({{zh|t=歸善|labels=no}}), and [[Hoi Fung|Hoi Fung (Haï-fung)]] ({{zh|t=海豐|labels=no}}).

Churches with resident priests were [[Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Hong Kong)|the cathedral]] ([[Glenealy, Hong Kong|Glenealy]]), [[St. Joseph's Church (Hong Kong)|St. Joseph's]]<small> &#91;[[c:Category:St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Hong Kong|commons]]]</small> ([[Garden Road, Hong Kong|Garden Road]]), [[Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (Hong Kong)|St. Francis]] (Wan Chai), Church of the Sacred Heart ([[West Point, Hong Kong|West Point]]), Church of St. Anthony{{ill|‌|preserve=yes|commons|File:HK St Anthony's School.JPG}} (West Point). The [[Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris]] had a procurator, a sanitorium ([[Béthanie (Hong Kong)|Béthanie]] in [[Pok Fu Lam]]) and a printing office ([[University Hall (University of Hong Kong)|Nazareth]]) at Hong Kong.

In 1875 the Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris established in Pok Fu Lam, [[Béthanie (Hong Kong)|Béthanie]] a sanitorium to serve as a place for priests and missionaries from all over Asia to recover from tropical diseases before returning to their missions. With the 1894, bubonic plague outbreak, much of the population left Hong Kong. [[Douglas Steamship Company|John Douglas Lapraik]] sold the family estate at Pok Fu Lam, Douglas Castle, to the French Mission. The building soon turned into a monastery and was renamed, Nazareth. The building went through a major renovation which included a printing house that operated one of the busiest bible printing and translation facilities of the early 20th century in Asia.