Murphy Pakiam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Murphy Pakiam

Catholic bishop

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1938

Place of Birth: Tapah, Perak, Malaysia

Profession: Catholic priest

Nationality: Malaysia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Tan Sri Datuk Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam, P.S.M., P.J.N.
(born 6 December 1938) is the third metropolitan archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
He is styled His Grace The Most Reverend Tan Sri Datuk. 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.