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Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam

His Excellency
Tan Sri Datuk
Murphy Pakiam

PSM, PJN
Archbishop Emeritus of Kuala Lumpur
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Motto: Mercy and Peace
See Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur
Latin: Archidioecesis Kuala Lumpurensis
Installed 29 May 2003
Term ended 13 December 2013
Predecessor Anthony Soter Fernandez
Successor Julian Leow Beng Kim
Orders
Ordination 10 May 1964
Consecration 4 October 1995
Personal details
Born (1938-12-06) 6 December 1938 (age 78)
Tapah, Perak, Malaysia
Nationality Malaysian
Denomination Roman Catholic
Residence Rumah Uskup Agung [Archbishop's House], Bukit Nanas, Kuala Lumpur
Alma mater

Lateran University

De La Salle University
Styles of
Murphy Pakiam
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Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Grace
Religious style Archbishop
Posthumous style not applicable

Lateran University

Tan Sri Datuk Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam (born 6 December 1938) is the third metropolitan archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Pakiam was born in Tapah, Perak and was ordained into the priesthood on 10 May 1964. He was appointed metropolitan archbishop of Kuala Lumpur on 24 May 2003, and was installed five days later. Pakiam is the former president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei; and the publisher of the Catholic weekly newspaper, The Herald.

In 2007, Pakiam filed for a judicial review after The Herald was ordered to stop using the Arabic word "Allah" in its publication by the Malaysian government. In 2009, the High Court overturned the government's ban of the word. In 2010, he accepted the public apology of Al-Islam magazine, which had sent two reporters to a Catholic church the year before, where they desecrated the Eucharist.

Pakiam was born in Tapah, Perak, on the feast day of the popular saint of children, St. Nicholas. Educated at the Sultan Yusuf School in Batu Gajah, he entered the minor seminary in 1955 and started his priestly formation at the College General in Penang three years later. Pakiam was ordained a priest on 10 May 1964, and served as assistant priest at the Church of St. Louis, Taiping. The following year, he was posted to the Church of St. Francis Xavier in Penang and became the Parish Priest of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Silibin, Ipoh from 1970–72.


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