Diocese of Phát Diệm

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Diocese of Phát Diệm
Basic data
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
Cathedral in Phát Diệm

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

Vicars Apostolic of Phát Diệm

Bishops of Phát Diệm

See also

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Phát Diệm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ioannes XXIII: Const. Apost. Venerabilium Nostrorum , AAS 53 (1961), n.7, p. 346ff.