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The Institute for the Works of Religion (Italian: Istituto per le Opere di Religione; Latin: Institutum pro Operibus Religionis; abbreviated IOR), [4] [5] commonly known as the Vatican Bank, is a financial institution [2] that is situated inside Vatican City and run by a Board of Superintendence, which reports to a Commission of Cardinals and ...
June 19, 1988, Vatican City, by Pope John Paul II: Major shrine: Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Sở Kiện, Hà Nam, Vietnam: Feast: November 24 (memorial, General Roman Calendar) 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (solemnity, Vietnam) First Sunday in September (feast, Vietnam, pre-canonization) Patronage: Vietnam
The Pope would again meet Vietnamese leader Trần Đại Quang and his associates in Vatican in 2016. [66] Vietnam remains as the only Asian communist country to have an unofficial representative of the Vatican in the country and has held official to unofficial meetings with the Vatican's representatives both in Vietnam and the Holy See ...
The bank came to be known as the "priests' bank"; one chairman was Franco Ratti, nephew to Pope Pius XI. In the 1960s, the bank began to expand its business, opening a holding company in Luxembourg in 1963 which came to be known as Banco Ambrosiano Holding. This was under the direction of Carlo Canesi, then a senior manager, and from 1965 chairman.
The Archdiocese of Saigon (Vietnamese: Tổng giáo phận Sài Gòn, Latin: Archidioecesis Saigonensis) or Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Tổng giáo phận Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Latin: Archidioecesis Hochiminhopolitana) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the south of Vietnam.
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Paul Casimir Marcinkus GCOIH (/ m ɑːr ˈ s ɪ ŋ k ə s /; January 15, 1922 – February 20, 2006) was an American archbishop of the Catholic Church and president of the Institute for the Works of Religion, commonly known as the Vatican Bank, from 1971 to 1989.
Ven. Thich Nhat Tu was born in 1969. After completing secondary high school, he became a novice at 13 years old, under the spiritual guidance of the late Most Ven. Thich Thien Hue at Giac Ngo Temple and received full ordination in 1988.