Paul Bùi Văn Đọc

Paul Bùi Văn Đọc
Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City
(2014-2018)
See Ho Chi Minh City
Installed 22 March 2014
Term ended 6 March 2018
Predecessor Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn
Successor Sede vacante
Other posts President of Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam
Orders
Ordination 17 December 1970
Consecration 20 May 1999
by Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn
Personal details
Born 11 November 1944
Đà Lạt, French Indochina
(now Đà Lạt, Vietnam)
Died 6 March 2018(2018-03-06) (aged 73)[1]
Rome, Italy
Nationality Vietnamese
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  • Apostolic Administrator of Mỹ Tho (28 Sep 2013 – 30 August 2014)
  • Coadjutor Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City (28 Sep 2013 – 22 March 2014)
  • Diocesan Bishop of Mỹ Tho (26 Mar 1999 – 28 September 2013)
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Archbishop Paul Bùi Văn Đọc (11 November 1944 – 6 March 2018) was a Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City from 2014 to 2018 and the President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam from 2013 to 2016.[2]

Biography

Paul Đọc was born on 11 November 1944 in Da Lat, Vietnam. In 1956, he started to study at a seminary in Sai Gon (now Ho Chi Minh City). He then continued his studies in philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, from 1964 to 1970. He was ordained a priest on 17 December 1970 in Da Lat and served as the Rector of Minh Hoa Major Seminary from 1975 until he became Vicar General of Da Lat diocese in 1995.

On 26 March 1999, he was appointed as Bishop of My Tho by Pope John Paul II and was consecrated by Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn, Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City on 20 May the same year.

He was named Coadjutor Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City on 28 September 2013 by Pope Francis. On 22 March 2014, he succeeded Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn, upon the latter's resignation due to age limit.

He died on 6 March 2018 in Rome. He was there to participate in the ad limina visit of the conference of Vietnamese bishops. He is suspected to suffered a stroke during a Mass at the church of Saint Paul Outside the Walls and was rushed to San Camillo hospital where he died.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Đức Giám Mục Phaolô Bùi Văn Đọc, Tổng Giám Mục Giáo Phận Sàigòn, đã qua đời tại Vatican".
  2. ↑ "Biên bản Đại Hội lần thứ XII Hội đồng Giám mục Việt Nam" (in Vietnamese). Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
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