Diocese of Vĩnh Long

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Diocese of Vĩnh Long
Basic data
Country Vietnam
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City
Diocesan bishop Peter Huỳnh Văn Hai
founding 1960
surface 6,772 km²
Parishes 216 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents 4,065,200 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics 204.908 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of 5%
Diocesan priest 183 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest 27 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest 976
Friars 93 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters 678 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Vietnamese
cathedral Saint Anna
Website http://giaophanvinhlong.net/

The diocese of Vinh Long ( latin Dioecesis Vinhlongensis , Vietnamese Giáo Phan Vinh Long ) is one in Vietnam Located Roman Catholic diocese based in Vinh Long .

history

The Diocese of Vĩnh Long was on January 8, 1938 by Pope Pius XI. Established from the cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate Saigon as Apostolic Vicariate Vĩnh Long . On November 24, 1960, the Vicariate Apostolic Vĩnh Long by Pope John XXIII. raised to a diocese with the Apostolic Constitution Venerabilium Nostrorum and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City as a suffragan .

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Vĩnh Long

Bishops of Vĩnh Long

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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