Diocese of Thanh Hóa

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Diocese of Thanh Hóa
Basic data
Country Vietnam
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Hanoi
Diocesan bishop Joseph Nguyễn Đức Cường
founding 1932
surface 11,700 km²
Parishes 73 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents 4,291,000 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics 147,585 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of 3.4%
Diocesan priest 104 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest 2 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest 1,392
Permanent deacons 14 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Friars 2 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters 212 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Vietnamese
Website http://gpthanhhoa.org/

The diocese of Thanh Hóa ( Latin Dioecesis de Thanh Hoa , Vietnamese Giáo Phan Thanh Hóa ) is in Vietnam Located Roman Catholic diocese based in Thanh Hóa .

Founded on May 7, 1932 as the Apostolic Vicariate , it was founded 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 .

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