Diocese of Da Nang

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Diocese of Da Nang
Basic data
Country Vietnam
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Huế
Diocesan bishop Joseph Dang Duc Ngan
Emeritus diocesan bishop Paul Nguyên Binh Tinh PSS
founding 1963
surface 11,664 km²
Parishes 54 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 2,348,071 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 70,342 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 3%
Diocesan priest 78 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 20 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 718
Friars 28 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 248 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Vietnamese
cathedral Heart of jesus
Website www.giaophandanang.org

The Diocese of Da Nang ( lat. : Dioecesis Danangensis , Vietnamese : Giáo Phan Da Nang ) is a in Vietnam Located Roman Catholic diocese based in Da Nang .

history

The diocese Đà Nẵng was on January 18, 1963 by Pope John XXIII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Naturalis in vitae from cessions of territory of the diocese Qui Nhơn and subordinated to the archbishopric Huế as a suffragan .

Da Nang Cathedral

Bishops of Da Nang

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ioannes XXIII: Const. Apost. Naturalis in vitae , AAS 56 (1964), n.4, p. 238f.