Michel Nguyễn Khắc Ngư (2 February 1909 – 10 June 2009
) was a Vietnamese prelate in the
Roman Catholic Church
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.
Ngư was born in Vạn Đồn,
Indochina
Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...
in 1909, and was ordained as a priest on 29 June 1934. He was appointed bishop of the newly created
Diocese of Long Xuyên on 24 November 1960, and received his
episcopal consecration
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
on 22 January 1961. Ngư retired from the
Diocese of Long Xuyên on 30 December 1997, at the age of 88. He died on 10 June 2009, at the age of 100. At the time of his death he was the third oldest living Roman Catholic bishop,
References
External links
Profile at Catholic Hierarchy website (website has wrong diacritics)Long Xuyen website(in Vietnamese)
1909 births
2009 deaths
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Vietnam
Men centenarians
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
Vietnamese centenarians
Place of birth missing
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