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Dec 06, 1938 Tapah, Perak, Malaysia 85 years old
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About Murphy Pakiam
- 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.
