Diocese of Phát Diệm
Diocese of Phát Diệm | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Vietnam |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Hanoi |
Diocesan bishop | Sedis vacancy |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Joseph Nguyên Van Yên |
founding | 1960 |
surface | 1,787 km² |
Parishes | 78 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 1,019,560 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 151.038 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 14.8% |
Diocesan priest | 79 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 10 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 1,697 |
Friars | 95 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 271 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Vietnamese |
cathedral | Queen of the Rosary |
Website | http://www.phatdiem.org/Portal/Default.aspx?Culture |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phát Diệm ( Latin Dioecesis de Phat Diem , Vietnamese Giáo Phan Phát Diệm ) is in Vietnam Located Roman Catholic diocese based in Phát Diệm .
history
The diocese Phát Diệm was on April 15, 1901 by Pope Leo XIII. Established from the cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate Ost-Tonking as Apostolic Vicariate Coast-Tonking . On December 3, 1924, the Apostolic Vicariate Coast Tonking was renamed the Apostolic Vicariate Phát Diệm .
The Apostolic Vicariate Phát Diệm was on November 24, 1960 by Pope John XXIII. raised to a diocese with the Apostolic Constitution Venerabilium Nostrorum and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Hanoi as a suffragan .
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Coast Tonking
- Jean-Pierre-Alexandre Marcou MEP , 1901-1924
Vicars Apostolic of Phát Diệm
- Jean-Pierre-Alexandre Marcou MEP, 1924-1935
- Jean-Baptiste Tong Nguyên Ba , 1935–1945
- Thaddée Anselme Lê Hữu Từ OCist , 1945–1959
- Paul Bùi Chu Tạo , 1959–1960
Bishops of Phát Diệm
- Paul Bui Chu Tao, 1960-1998
- Joseph Nguyên Van Yên , 1998–2007
- Joseph Nguyen Nang , 2009–2019, then Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City
- Sedis vacancy , since 2019
See also
Web links
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