Joseph-Marie Trịnh Như Khuê (11 December 1898–27 November 1978) was the first Vietnamese

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of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Hanoi from 1960 until his death, having previously served as its apostolic vicar, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1976.

Biography

Khuê was born in Tràng Duệ, Bình Lục, Hà Nam and ordained to the priesthood on 1 April 1932. On 18 April 1950, he was appointed Apostolic Vicar of Hanoi and Titular Bishop of

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. Khuê received his episcopal consecration on the following 15 August from Bishop Thaddeus Lê Hữu Từ,

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, with Bishops

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serving as

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, in the Cathedral of Hanoi. He was later raised to the rank of a Metropolitan Archbishop upon his

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's elevation to a metropolitan see on 24 November 1960. The archbishop was reserved as a

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'' by Pope Paul VI when the consistory was announced on April 28, 1976, and was published and created Cardinal Priest of ''

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who participated in the conclaves of August and October 1978, which selected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II respectively. Cardinal Khuê died in Hanoi, at the age of 79; he had been the ecclesiastical leader of Hanoi for twenty-eight years. He is buried in St. Joseph's Cathedral, Hanoi.

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Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
{{DEFAULTSORT:Trinh, Joseph-Marie Nhu Khue 1898 births 1978 deaths People from Hanoi Vietnamese cardinals 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Vietnam Participants in the Second Vatican Council Cardinals created by Pope Paul VI Vietnamese Roman Catholic archbishops