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Vietnam has the fifth largest Catholic population in Asia, after the Philippines, India, China and Indonesia. There are about 7 million Catholics in Vietnam, representing 7.4% of the total population. [1] There are 27 dioceses (including three archdioceses) with 2,228 parishes and 2,668 priests. [2]
The Diocese of Phan Thiết (Latin: Dioecesis Phanthietensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese of Vietnam. On 25 July 2009, Pope Benedict XVI selected Monsignor Joseph Vũ Duy Thống as bishop, who served until his death in 2017. The creation of the diocese in present form was declared 30 January 1975.
Charles Bishop Kuralt (September 10, 1934 [1] – July 4, 1997) was an American television, newspaper and radio journalist and author. [2] [3] He is most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years. [4]
Vietnamese martyrs Paul Mi, Pierre Duong, Pierre Truat, martyred on 18 December 1838 Christians at the time were branded on the face with the words "tả đạo" ( 左 道 , lit. "unorthodox religion") [ 5 ] and families and villages which subscribed to Christianity were obliterated.
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.
Bishop Jean-Pierre-Alexandre Marcou, M.E.P. December 03, 1924 – September 03, 1935 Resigned [9] 2 Bishop Jean-Baptiste Nguyễn Bá Tòng September 03, 1935 – June 08, 1945 3 Bishop Thaddeus Lê Hữu Từ, O. Cist. June 14, 1945 – 1959 4 Bishop Paul Bùi Chu Tạo January 24, 1959 – November 24, 1960 Remained as bishop of Phát Diệm.
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 ...
Joseph Nguyễn Năng, appointed Bishop of Phát Diệm in 2009 and later Archbishop of Hồ Chi Minh City and concurrently Apostolic Administrator in the former; Emmanuel Nguyễn Hồng Sơn (priest here, 1980-2005), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Bà Rịa in 2015 and later succeeded