Archdiocese of Hanoi

Archdiocese of Hanoi
Basic data
Country	Vietnam
Diocesan bishop	Joseph Vu Van Thien
Emeritus diocesan bishop	Joseph Ngô Quang Kiệt Pierre Cardinal Nguyễn Văn Nhơn
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus	Laurent Chu Van Minh
founding	1960
surface	6,000 km²
Parishes	145 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents	8,651,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics	315,764 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of	3.7%
Diocesan priest	120 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest	35 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest	2,037
Friars	54 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters	452 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Vietnamese
cathedral	St. Joseph
Website	http://www.tgphanoi.org
Suffragan dioceses	Diocese of Bắc Ninh Diocese of Bùi Chu Diocese of Hòi Phòng Diocese of Hà Tĩnh Diocese of Hưng Hóa Diocese of Lạng Sơn and Cao Bằng Diocese of Phát Diệm Diocese of Thái Bình Diocese of Thanh Hóa Diocese of Vinh

St. Joseph Cathedral in Hanoi

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hanoi ( lat. : Archidioecesis Hanoiensis , Vietnamese : Tổng giáo Phan Ha Noi) is a in Vietnam located Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in Hanoi .

history

The Archdiocese of Hanoi was established in 1659 by Pope Alexander VII - formally from the cession of territory by the Diocese of Macau - as the Apostolic Vicariate of Tonking (Latin: Ton-Kin ). On July 24, 1678 the Vicariate Apostolic Tonking was divided into the Vicariate Apostolic Osttonking and Westtonking ( Ton-Kin Occidentalis ). On December 3, 1924, the name was changed to Apostolic Vicariate Hanoi . This was in turn on November 24, 1960 by Pope John XXIII. with the Apostolic Constitution Venerabilium Nostrorum raised to the archbishopric.

Since 1976 all archbishops of Hanoi have been created as cardinals , so that Hanoi is traditionally a bishopric with the dignity of cardinals.

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Tonking

• François Pallu MEP , 1658-1678

Vicars Apostolic of West Tonking

• François Pallu MEP, 1678-1679
• Jacques de Bourges MEP, 1679-1714
• Edmond Bélot MEP, 1714-1717
• François-Gabriel Guisain MEP, 1718-1723
• Louis Neez MEP, 1738-1764
• Bertrand Reydellet MEP, 1764-1780
• Jean Davoust MEP, 1780-1789
• Jacques-Benjamin Longer MEP, 1789-1831
• Joseph-Marie-Pélagie Havard MEP, 1831-1838
• Saint Pierre Dumoulin-Borie MEP, 1838-1838
• Pierre-André Retord MEP, 1838-1858
• Charles-Hubert Jeantet MEP, 1858–1866
• Joseph-Simon Theurel MEP, 1866-1868
• Paul-François Puginier MEP, 1868-1892
• Pierre-Jean-Marie Gendreau MEP, 1892-1924

Vicars Apostolic of Hanoi

• Pierre-Jean-Marie Gendreau MEP, 1924-1935
• François Chaize MEP, 1935-1949
• Joseph Marie Trịnh Như Khuê , 1950–1960

Archbishops of Hanoi

• Joseph Marie Cardinal Trịnh Như Khuê, 1960–1978
• Cardinal Joseph-Marie Trinh Van-Can , 1978–1990
  • Paul Joseph Phạm Đình Tụng , 1990–1994 ( Apostolic Administrator )
• Paul Joseph Cardinal Phạm Đình Tụng, 1994-2005
• Joseph Ngô Quang Kiệt , 2005–2010
• Pierre Cardinal Nguyễn Văn Nhơn , 2010–2018
• Joseph Vu Van Thien , since 2018

See also

• Roman Catholic Church in Vietnam
• List of Roman Catholic Dioceses

Web links

• Entry for the Archdiocese of Hanoi on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

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