Jean-Baptiste Urrutia (born 6 November 1901, Les Aduldes, Basses-Pyrénées,

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

– died 15 January 1979, Montbeton, France) was a French

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from the

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. He was an attendee at the

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. Ordained in 1925, he was sent to Annam in

French Indochina French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China),; vi, Đông Dương thuộc Pháp, , lit. 'East Ocean under French Control; km, ឥណ្ឌូចិនបារាំង, ; th, อินโดจีนฝรั่งเศส, ...

. He taught at the An Ninh Minor Seminary, where he had François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận as a student. He ordained Thuận in 1953. Urrutia was consecrated bishop ''in partibus'' in 1948 and made Titular Bishop of

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as well as

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of the

Huế Huế () is the capital of Thừa Thiên Huế province in central Vietnam and was the capital of Đàng Trong from 1738 to 1775 and of Vietnam during the Nguyễn dynasty from 1802 to 1945. The city served as the old Imperial City and admi ...

during the

Indochina War The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam) began in French Indochina from 19 December 1946 to 20 July 1954 between France and Việt Minh (Democratic Republic of Vi ...

. He retired in 1960, near Our Lady of La Vang Sanctuary and was expelled from

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in 1975 by the communists.Archives of the Foreign Missions Society He spent his last years in Montbeton, France, where he died in 1979, aged 77.

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Archives of the Foreign Missions Society (French)
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