Dominic Mai Luong

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Coat of arms of Auxiliary Bishop Dominic Mai Luong

Dominic Mai Luong ( Vietnamese : Đa Minh Mai Thanh Lương ; * December 20, 1940 in Minh Cường , Vietnam ; † December 6, 2017 ) was a Vietnamese-American clergyman and Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Orange, California .

Life

His name combines western name tradition ( Dominic as first name before the family name Mai ) with Vietnamese ( Luong as a personal name is behind the family name).

Dominic Mai Luong was born in Vietnam , where he attended a Franco-Vietnamese elementary school and later the Holy Family Seminary High School. He then lived in the seminary in Buffalo , New York , and at St. Bernard Seminary in Rochester , New York, where he studied philosophy and theology. Luong then continued his studies and received a degree from Canisius College in Buffalo.

Dominic Mai Luong received the sacrament of ordination for the diocese of Đà Nẵng on May 21, 1966 in Buffalo . The circumstances did not allow a return to his homeland, which is why he was incardinated in the clergy of the Archdiocese of New Orleans in 1976 .

In New Orleans , he led the Vietnamese apostolate from 1976 to 1983 until he was parish pastor. 1986 Pope named him John Paul II. To Monsignor . Luong headed the National Pastoral Center of the Vietnamese Apostolate from 1989 to 2003. He was also a member of the presbytery of the Archdiocese from 1987 to 2003 and Dean of New Orleans East in 2002 and 2003 .

On April 25, 2003, Pope John Paul II appointed him titular bishop of Cebarades and auxiliary bishop in Orange, California. The Bishop of Orange in California, Tod Brown , gave him on June 11 of that year in Saint Columban Church in Garden Grove , the episcopal ordination ; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of New Orleans , Alfred Clifton Hughes , and the Auxiliary Bishop in Orange, California, Jaime Soto .

His motto is You are Strangers and Aliens No Longer (“You are no longer strangers and foreigners”) and comes from the Apostle Paul's letter to the Ephesians ( Eph 2.19  EU ).

Pope Francis accepted his age-related resignation on December 20, 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Biography of Dominic Mai Luong. ( Memento of May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Official website of the Diocese of Orange in California. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ Explanations on the coat of arms of the auxiliary bishop. ( Memento of May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Official website of the Diocese of Orange in California. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ rinuncia dell'Ausiliare della diocesi di Orange in California (USA). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , December 20, 2015, accessed December 20, 2015 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Mai Luong, Dominic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mai Thanh Lương, Đa Minh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese-American clergyman, Auxiliary Bishop in Orange in California
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Minh Cường , Vietnam
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2017