Diocese of Thái Bình

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Diocese of Thái Bình
Basic data
Country Vietnam
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Hanoi
Diocesan bishop Pierre Nguyên Van Dê SDS
founding March 9, 1936
surface 2,221 km²
Parishes 119 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents 2,955,000 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics 134,700 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of 4.6%
Diocesan priest 130 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest 24 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest 875
Friars 42 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters 187 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Vietnamese
cathedral Heart of jesus
Website http://giaophanthaibinh.org/

The diocese Thái Bình ( Latin Dioecesis de Thai Binh , Vietnamese Giáo Phan Thái Bình ) is in Vietnam Located Roman Catholic diocese based in Thái Bình .

history

Sacred Heart Cathedral in Thái Bình

The Diocese of Thái Bình was on March 9, 1936 by Pope Pius XI. Established with the Apostolic Constitution Praecipuas inter from cessions of territory of the Apostolic Vicariate Bùi Chu as Apostolic Vicariate Thái Bình .

The Apostolic Vicariate Thái Bình 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 Thái Bình

Bishops of Thái Bình

See also

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Thái Bình  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pius XI: Const. Apost. Praecipuas inter , AAS 28 (1936), n.7, p. 392f.
  2. ↑ Ioannes XXIII: Const. Apost. Venerabilium Nostrorum , AAS 53 (1961), n.7, p. 346ff.