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Compared to other titles available to the heads of sui juris Eastern Catholic Churches, the title of "major archbishop" falls below "patriarch" and above "metropolitan archbishop". The title is used for archbishops of episcopal sees that were founded more recently than the patriarchal sees and are therefore less prestigious.
Étienne Nguyễn Như Thể (1 December 1935 – 16 December 2024) was a Vietnamese Catholic archbishop who served as the Archbishop of Huế from 1998 to 2012. He held the title of Archbishop Emeritus of Huế.
Joseph Nguyễn Năng (born 1953) is a Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a bishop since 2009 and the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Saigon since October 2019. He was elected president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam in October 2022.
The first Vietnamese bishop, Jean-Baptiste Nguyễn Bá Tòng, was consecrated in 1933 at St. Peter's Basilica by Pope Pius XI. [19] The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam was founded in 1980. In 1976, the Holy See made Archbishop Joseph-Marie Trịnh Như Khuê the first Vietnamese cardinal. Joseph-Marie Cardinal Trịnh Văn Căn in 1979 ...
Pages in category "Vietnamese Roman Catholic archbishops" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
On February 21, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him bishop of Ban Mê Thuột. He received episcopal consecration on May 12, 2009, from archbishop Étienne Nguyễn Như Thể. Within the Vietnamese Episcopal Conference, he served as chairman of the committee for sacred music for three consecutive terms from 2010 to 2019. [4]
He was Professor of Theology at the Major Seminary in Hanoi from 2000 to 2002. [2] Pope John Paul II named him Bishop of Hai Phòng on 26 November 2002 [2] and he received his episcopal consecration on 2 January 2003 from Cardinal Paul Joseph Phạm Đình Tụng, Archbishop of Hanoi. [3]
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