The Diocese of Đà Lat ( la, Dioecesis Dalatensis, links=no) is a Latin

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church in the

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of the Metropolitan of the

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in southern

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, yet depends on the missionary

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. Its

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episcopal see is Nhà Thờ Chình Toà Thánh Nicola Bari, in the southern city of

Da Lat 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 ...

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, Central Highlands. Its present Bishop is Dominic Nguyễn Văn Mạnh, since September 16, 2019.

Statistics and extent

As per 2014, it pastorally served 368,487 Catholics (27.8% of 1,325,000 total) on 9,764 km² in 87 parishes and 16 missions with 259 priests (143 diocesan, 116 religious), 1,413 lay religious (501 brothers, 912 sisters) and 69 seminarians. Many of its faithful belong to ethnic minorities.

History

* The bishopric was created on November 24, 1960 as Diocese of Đà Lat / Ðàlạt (Tiếng Việt) / 大叻 (正體中文) / Dalaten(sis) (Latin), on territories split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Saigon and the then Apostolic Vicariate of Kontum * On 22 June 1967 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Ban Mê Thuôt.

Episcopal ordinaries

(all

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) ;''Suffragan Bishops of Đà Lat'' * Simon Hoà Nguyễn Văn Hiền (24 November 1960 – death 5 September 1973), previously

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of Sagalassus (1955.09.20 – 1960.11.24) as

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Saigon , population_density_km2 = 4,292 , population_density_metro_km2 = 697.2 , population_demonym = Saigonese , blank_name = GRP (Nominal) , blank_info = 2019 , blank1_name = – Total , blank1_ ...

(Vietnam) (1955.09.20 – 1960.11.24) * Barthélémy Nguyễn Sơn Lâm,

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(P.S.S.) (30 January 1975 – 23 March 1994), next Bishop of Thanh Hoá (Vietnam) (1994.03.23 – death 2003.06.09) *

Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn ( vi, Phêrô Nguyễn Văn Nhơn; born 1 April 1938) is a Viet Nam, Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hanoi, Archdiocese of Hanoi from May 2010 ...

(23 March 1994 – 22 April 2010), also President of Episcopal Conference of Vietnam (2007 – 2013); succeeded as previous

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of Đà Lat (1991.10.11 – 1994.03.23); next

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of the

Archdiocese of Hanoi Archdiocese of Hanoi ( la, Archidioecesis Hanoiensis, vi, Tổng giáo phận Hà Nội, french: Archidiocèse d'Hanoï) is a Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vietnam. It is one of the earliest in the history of the C ...

, succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Hà Nôi (2010.05.13 – ...), created

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of S. Tommaso Apostolo (2015.02.14 015.12.06– ...) * Antoine Vũ Huy Chương (1 March 2011 – ...); previously Bishop of

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(Vietnam) (2003.08.05 – 2011.03.01) **

(2017.04.08 – ...):

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Dominic Nguyễn Văn Mạnh, no other prelature .

References

Sources and external links

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Roman Catholic dioceses in Vietnam Da Lat Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Ho Chi Minh City Religious organizations established in 1960 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century

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Statistics and extent

History

Episcopal ordinaries

See also

References

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