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Meanwhile, the traditional chữ Nôm, in which Girolamo Maiorica was an expert, was the main script conveying Catholic faith to Vietnamese until the late 19th century. [ 6 ] Since the late 17th century, French missionaries of the Foreign Missions Society and Spanish missionaries of the Dominican Order were gradually became active in ...
A power struggle developed between Minh Mạng and pro-Catholic, pro-Western officials who wanted to maintain the power they had been given by Gia Long. [29] [30] Eventually, 2,000 Vietnamese Catholic troops fought under the command of Father Nguyễn Văn Tâm in an attempt to depose Minh Mạng and install a Catholic "emperor". [31]
The Catholic Church in Vietnam comprises solely a Latin rite hierarchy, joint in a national episcopal conference, comprising three metropolitan archdioceses and 24 suffragan dioceses. There are no Eastern Catholic, (missionary) pre-diocesan or other exempt jurisdictions.
The diocese of Hải Phòng (Latin: Dioecesis Haiphongensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in northern Vietnam.The bishop is Vincent Nguyên Văn Ban, since 2022. The creation of the diocese in its present form was declared 24 November 1960. The earliest forms of Roman Catholic institutions appeared in that territory since 1655, with
2 Cardinal Joseph-Marie Trịnh Văn Căn: November 27, 1978 – May 18, 1990 – Bishop Paul-Joseph Phạm Ðình Tụng: May 18, 1990 – March 23, 1994: Apostolic Administrator: 3 Cardinal Paul-Joseph Phạm Ðình Tụng: March 23, 1994 – February 19, 2005 Resigned – Bishop Joseph Ngô Quang Kiệt: April 15, 2003 – February 19, 2005
[3] The Cathedral, very well located in the upper part of this coastal city next to the Nha Trang Station , has a remarkable amount of stained glass windows depicting saints, including several French saints, such as St. Joan of Arc [ 4 ] and St. John Vianney , and episodes from the life of Jesus .
The modern Vietnamese alphabet chữ Quốc ngữ was created by Portuguese and Italian Jesuit missionaries and institutionalized by Alexandre de Rhodes with the first printing of Catholic texts in Vietnamese in 1651, but not the Bible. Some New Testament extracts were translated and printed in catechisms in Thailand in 1872.
Emperor Tự Đức (r. 1848–1883) of Vietnam. From 1849 to 1862, during the early years of the Vietnamese emperor Tự Đức (r. 1848–1883) of Vietnam, the most intense, brutal and bloodiest anti-Christian persecution ever in history happened in Vietnam, also was the last state-sponsored persecution of Catholic Christians in Vietnam, as a part of Tự Đức's efforts to eradicate every ...