page_title: Wah Yan College, Hong Kong
section_title: Wah Yan under the Irish Jesuits
hierarchical_section_title: Wah Yan College, Hong Kong / History / Chronology / Wah Yan under the Irish Jesuits
caption_attribution_description: New Annex of Wah Yan College, Hong Kong
context_page_description: Wah Yan College, Hong Kong is a grant-in-aid secondary school in Hong Kong. Founded on 16 December 1919 by Tsui Yan Sau Peter, it is now a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys run by the Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus. Subsidized by the Government of Hong Kong, WYCHK is a grammar school using English as the medium of instruction. There are around 60 teachers and 800 students.
  WYCHK is considered, together with its sister school Wah Yan College, Kowloon, and feeder school Pun U Association Wah Yan Primary School, as among the most prestigious boys' schools in Hong Kong. It has an enrolment of approximately 800 students with 60 teachers and a few Irish Jesuit Fathers. The supervisor of the school is Rev. Fr. Stephen Chow, S.J., who is an alumnus of the school, a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, and an educational psychologist. The current principal of the school is Dr. Davis Chan, the second alumnus of St. Joseph's College, Hong Kong to become the principal of the college after the founder Mr. Tsui Yan Sau Peter.
context_section_description: In 1932 the school was transferred to the Society of Jesus, after a long series of negotiations between the original administration and the Jesuit fathers. The transfer was completed on 31 December, and Fr Gallagher, S.J., replaced Lim Hoi Lan as the headmaster. The school was also given a new name: College of Christ the King.
  In 1933, the College published the first volume of its yearbook, The Star. A house system was introduced in 1934. In 1940 the hostel was closed down.
caption: Current campus (1955 to current): 281 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai
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