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English

George Smith was the first Bishop of the Diocese of Victoria of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. The church's official list of past bishops records his term as 1849 to 1866, while the province's official history gives 1849 to 1864 in one passage; the two official pages do not agree, so this entry reports both instead of choosing one. The history records that the Royal Letters Patent of 1849 created the Diocese of Victoria, that Smith was consecrated bishop at Canterbury Cathedral, that the diocese then covered China and Japan, that he ordained the first Chinese deacon, and that he built churches within his jurisdiction. The official pages do not state his years of birth or death.