 In 1888, the Church was once again placed under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Malacca when the Diocese was revived.The Diocese of Malacca was raised to the rank of an archdiocese in 1953.In 1955, the Archdiocese of Malacca was split and an ecclesiastical province was formed in its place comprising the Archdiocese of Malacca-Singapore as the metropolitan see and the Diocese of Kuala Lumpur and Diocese of Penang as suffragan dioceses.