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Albert Schlicklin, Vietnamese name Cố Chính Linh (Liebsdorf, 12 November 1857 - Hanoi, 2 March 1932), was an Alsatian Catholic priest in Vietnam who translated the Bible from Latin into Vietnamese, as the Cô Chinh Linh version. His translation (1916) remained most popular among Catholics until 1970.
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]
Latin-Vietnamese catechism, written by Alexandre de Rhodes. A page from Alexandre de Rhodes' 1651 dictionary, Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum . As his sentence was reduced to exile, Rhodes returned to Rome by 1649 and pleaded for increased funding for Catholic missions to Vietnam, telling somewhat exaggerated stories about the ...
The whole Bible was published in 1934 and is published by the Bible Society in Vietnam as the "Old Version" and uses an archaic, traditional vocabulary of Vietnamese. In 1966, the Vietnamese Bible Society was established. The Bible societies distributed 53,170 Bible examples and 120,170 New Testament examples in Vietnamese within the country in ...
Francisco de Pina (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku ðɨ ˈpinɐ]; 1585 – 1625) was a Portuguese Jesuit interpreter, missionary and priest, credited with creating the first Latinized script of the Vietnamese language, which the modern Vietnamese alphabet is based on.
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.
Priest, Founder, Marian Movement of Priests [1] [2] Pierre Lambert de la Motte: January 16, 1624 June 15, 1679 France Vietnam: Phan Thiết: Heroic Virtues Bishop, Member, Paris Foreign Missions Society [3] [4] Luís Cecchin December 11, 1924 March 26, 2010 Italy Brazil: Nazaré: Heroic Virtues Professed Priest [5] [6] Cecilia María de la ...
He was a member of the Ngô family who ruled South Vietnam in the years leading up to the Vietnam War and was the founder of Dalat University. While Thục was in Rome attending the second session of the Second Vatican Council , the 1963 South Vietnamese coup overthrew and assassinated his younger brothers, Ngô Đình Diệm (who was president ...