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John-Nhan Tran was born in the Bình Giã district of South Vietnam on February 6, 1966, to Dung Van Tran and Lai Thi Nguyen. [3] [4] When Tran was two years old, his mother was shot and killed during the Vietnam War. Tran's older brother was also killed by a land mine. [5] When Tran was nine, his family fled from Saigon, South Vietnam on a ...
The Roman 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 Catholic Church in Vietnam is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of bishops in Vietnam who are in communion with the Pope in Rome. Vietnam has the fifth largest Catholic population in Asia, after the Philippines , India , China and Indonesia .
The first Catholic missionaries visited Vietnam from Portugal and Spain in the 16th century. In 1524, Portuguese merchant Duarte Coelho's fleet arrived in Hội An, central Vietnam, to trade, bringing along Catholic missionaries. [4] A missionary named I-nê-khu arrived in Nam Định, northern Vietnam, in 1533.
Athenagoras of Athens [2] 190: wrote in defense of the resurrection of the dead [4] Atticus [2] 420s Augustine of Hippo: 430: one of the Four Great Doctors of the Western Church (Doctor Gratiae) Aurelius of Carthage [7] 429 Aurelius Prudentius [2] [4] 413: commented on the Psalms [16] Ausonius [citation needed] 395 Avitus of Vienne [2] 518
Alexandre de Rhodes, SJ (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ də ʁɔd]; 15 March 1593 [1] – 5 November 1660), also Đắc Lộ was an Avignonese Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who had a lasting impact on Christianity in Vietnam.
Initially created in 1960s for South Vietnam, and officially re-founded in 1980 after the reunification of Vietnam, the CBCV is composed of all active and retired members of the Catholic hierarchy (i.e., diocesan, coadjutor, and auxiliary bishops) in Vietnam.
In November 2006, the Cua Bac Catholic Church in Hanoi became the venue of joint worship service of the Vietnamese Catholics and Protestants with participation of the United States president George W. Bush, who was on an official visit to Vietnam. Cua Bac Church (Northern Gate Church) has regular sermons and services in the English language and ...