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The bishop is Joseph Đặng Đức Ngân since 2016. The creation of the diocese in present form was declared January 18, 1963. The diocese covers an area of 11,690 km², and is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Huế. By 2004, the diocese of Đà Nang had about 57,870 believers (2.7% of the population), 68 priests and 38 parishes. [3]
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Eastern Church dioceses, directly subject to the Holy See (exempt) or to their particular church's Patriarch or Major Archbishop Armenian Catholic Diocese of Sainte-Croix-de-Paris , Eparchy with cathedral see in Paris , in and for France, immediately subject to the Patriarch of Cilicia , but not part of his province
The Hai Van Pass has also been the scene of at least two of Vietnam's most serious rail accidents, and at least one air crash. 24 June 1953 – 1953 Col des Nuages derailment : "About 100 or more" were killed when two locomotives and 18 cars of a passenger train plunged 50 feet through a sabotaged viaduct in the Col des Nuages, now known as the ...
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.
All dioceses in East Timor are part of a national Episcopal Conference of Timor (Conferência Episcopal Timorense). There is an apostolic nunciature as papal diplomatic representation (embassy-level) to Timor-Leste (East Timor), but it is located in neighboring Indonesia 's capital, Jakarta , at the same address as the Apostolic Nunciature to ...
On 26 March 1997, the beatification process for the Redemptorist brother Marcel Nguyễn Tân Văn was opened by Cardinal Nguyễn Văn Thuận in the diocese of Belley-Ars, France. There have been meetings between leaders of Vietnam and the Vatican , including a visit by Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng to the Vatican to meet Pope ...
The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).