Diocese of Đà Lạt
Diocese of Đà Lạt | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Vietnam |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City |
Diocesan bishop | Dominic Nguyễn Van Manh |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Antoine Vu Huy Chuong |
founding | 1960 |
surface | 9,764 km² |
Parishes | 96 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 1,365,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 372,853 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 27.3% |
Diocesan priest | 162 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 123 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 1,308 |
Friars | 439 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 1,033 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Vietnamese |
cathedral | Saint Nicholas of Bari |
Website | http://www.simonhoadalat.com/ |
The diocese of Da Lat ( Latin Dioecesis Dalatensis , Vietnamese Giáo Phan Da Lat ) is a in Vietnam Located Roman Catholic diocese based in Da Lat .
history
The diocese Đà Lạt was on November 24, 1960 by Pope John XXIII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Quod venerabiles from cessions of territory by the Archdiocese of Saigon and the Apostolic Vicariate Kontum and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Saigon as a suffragan . The diocese Đà Lạt gave on June 22, 1967 parts of its territory to establish the diocese of Ban Mê Thuột .
Bishops of ạà Lạt
- Simon Hoa Nguyên-van Hien , 1960–1973
- Barthélémy Nguyễn Sơn Lâm PSS , 1975–1994, then Bishop of Thanh Hóa
- Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn , 1994–2010, then Coadjutor Archbishop of Hanoi
- Antoine Vu Huy Chuong , 2011–2019
- Dominic Nguyễn Van Manh , since 2019