ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of the Coadjutor Bishop of Bà Ria

Friday, 27 November 2015

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 November 2015 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Emmanuel Nguyen Hong Son, Vicar general of the same diocese as Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese of Bà Ria (Vietnam).
The new Coadjutor was born on January 2, 1952 in Bien Hòa in Dong Nai province, in southern Vietnam. He received priestly formation from 1961 to 1971 in the minor Seminary in Saigon, and then from 1971 to 1977, at the Pontifical College of St. Pius X in Da Lat. He was ordained a priest on 31 December 1980 in the diocese of Xuan Loc. Since his ordination he has served the following pastoral and academic roles: 1981-1991: Parish priest of Binh Son parish; 1991-2001: Parish priest in Le Phuoc; 2001-2006: Studies for a Licentiate in Dogmatic Theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris; since 2006: Rector of the St. Thomas Minor Seminary in Bà Ria, Head of the permanent formation of the diocesan clergy in Bà Ria, Member of the Episcopal Commission for the Doctrine of Faith; since 2009: Secretary of the Council of Priests of the diocese; since 2011: Vicar General of the same diocese.
The diocese of Bà Ria, erected in 2005, is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hochiminh Ville. It has an area of 1,988 square kilometers and a population of 1,427,024 inhabitants, of whom 254,302 are Catholics. There are 84 parishes, 172 priests (107 diocesan and 65 Religious), 282 Brothers and 517 Religious women, 72 seminarians. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 27/11/2015)


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