Diocese of Mỹ Tho

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Diocese of Mỹ Tho
Basic data
Country Vietnam
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City
Diocesan bishop Pierre Nguyên Van Kham
founding 1960
surface 9,262 km²
Parishes 106 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 4,241,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 136,866 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 3.2%
Diocesan priest 131 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 3 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,021
Friars 5 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 198 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Vietnamese
cathedral Immaculate Virgin Mary
Website http://giaophanmytho.net/

The diocese Mỹ Tho ( Latin Dioecesis Mythoensis , Vietnamese Giáo Phan Mỹ Tho ) is in Vietnam Located Roman Catholic diocese based in Mỹ Tho .

history

The diocese Mỹ Tho was on November 24, 1960 by Pope John XXIII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Quod venerabiles from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Saigon and subordinated to this as a suffragan .

Bishops of Mỹ Tho

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ioannes XXIII: Const. Apost. Quod venerabiles , AAS 53 (1961), n.9, p. 474ff.