Diocese of Ban Mê Thuột ( la, Dioecesis Banmethuotensis, links=no) is a

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diocese of

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in the city of

Buôn Ma Thuột Buôn Ma Thuột () (formerly Lac Giao) or sometimes Buôn Mê Thuột or Ban Mê Thuột, is the capital city of Đắk Lắk Province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Its population was 420,000 in 2016, and grew to 502,170 by 2018. The c ...

(''f.k.a.'' Ban Mê Thuột) in Đắk Lắk Province of the Central Highlands region. Joseph Nguyễn Tích Đức retired as bishop in 2007, and died as Bishop Emeritus on Monday, 23 May 2011, aged 73. The Diocese of Ban Mê Thuôt was erected on 22 June 1967 by

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with territory from the dioceses of

Đà Lạt Da Lat (also written as Dalat, vi, Đà Lạt; ), is the capital of Lâm Đồng Province and the largest city of the Central Highlands region in Vietnam. The city is located above sea level on the Langbian Plateau. Da Lat is one of the mos ...

and

Kontum Kon Tum is the capital city of Kon Tum Province in Vietnam. It is located inland in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam, near the borders of Laos and Cambodia. History After the People's Army of Vietnam invaded South Vietnam on March 30, 1 ...

. It is a

suffragan diocese A suffragan diocese is one of the dioceses other than the metropolitan archdiocese that constitute an ecclesiastical province. It exists in some Christian denominations, in particular the Catholic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ...

of the Archdiocese of Huế. More than 10% of the two million people living in its area are Roman Catholics. Many of them belong to ethnic minorities.

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Diocese of Ban Mê Thuôt
Buon Ma Thuot

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Christian organizations established in 1967 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century Ban Me Thuot, Roman Catholic Diocese of 1967 establishments in South Vietnam {{Vietnam-RC-diocese-stub