Jean Baptiste Bùi Tuần (24 June 1928 – 30 April 1975) is a Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop who served as the bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Long Xuyên The diocese of Long Xuyên ( la, Dioecesis Longxuyensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese of Vietnam. The bishop is Joseph Trân Xuân Tiéu, since 2003. The creation of the diocese in present form was declared November 24, 1960. The diocese covers a ...

from 1997 to 2003.

Biography

Jean Baptiste Bùi Tuần was born on 24 June 1928 in the commune of Cam Lai, now Đông Cơ,

Tiền Hải District The term ''tiền'' ( Hán tự: 錢) is used to refer to various currency-related concepts used in Vietnamese history. The name is a cognate with the Chinese ''qián'' (錢), a unit of weight called " mace" in English. It can refer to a unit o ...

, Thai Binh Province, Vietnam, to poor but devout peasant parents.

Education and Priesthood

In 1954, following the division of Vietnam, he fled to Hong Kong, where he was ordained a priest on 2 September 1955. He returned to southern Vietnam and was sent to Rome for further studies. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in

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, he was sent to Switzerland, where he earned a doctorate in philosophy, and completed his studies in Germany. Upon returning to his homeland, he was appointed director of the major seminary of Long Xuyên and a teacher at the seminary in

Rạch Giá Rạch Giá () is a provincial city and the capital city of Kiên Giang province, Vietnam. It is located on the eastern coast of the Gulf of Thailand, southwest of Ho Chi Minh City. East of city, it borders Tân Hiệp and Châu Thành town ...

. In the following years, he dedicated his pastoral service to caring for refugees amidst the backdrop of the civil war.

Episcopal Ministry

On 15 April 1975, Pope Paul VI appointed him as the coadjutor bishop of the

. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 April of the same year by Bishop Michel Nguyễn Khắc Ngữ, almost in secret while the Vietnam People's Army captured Saigon and Vietnam was reunified under the Communist government of Hanoi. He succeeded to the same position on 30 December 1997, and remained in office for almost six years until his retirement due to age limits on 2 October 2003. He is also known in his homeland for his activity as a writer, having published several texts and collections of poems, as well as his main work ''Thao thức'' (translatable as "Restlessness"), a series of five volumes published in 2007.

Episcopal lineage and apostolic succession

The

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is: * Patriarch Eliya XII Denha * Patriarch Yohannan VIII Hormizd * Bishop Isaie Jesu-Yab-Jean Guriel *

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* Patriarch Eliya XIV Abulyonan * Patriarch Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas * Bishop

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* Archbishop

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, O.P. * Archbishop

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* Bishop Michel Nguyễn Khắc Ngư * Bishop Jean Baptiste Bùi Tuần The

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is: * Bishop Joseph Trần Xuân Tiếu (1999) * Archbishop Joseph Ngô Quang Kiệt (1999)

References

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