Jean Baptiste Bùi Tuần
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Jean Baptiste Bùi Tuần (24 June 1928 – 27 July 2024) was a Vietnamese
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bishop who served as the bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Long Xuyên The diocese of Long Xuyên () is a Latin Catholic diocese of Vietnam. The bishop is Joseph Trần Xuân Tiếu, Joseph Trân Xuân Tiéu, since 2003. The creation of the diocese in present form was declared November 24, 1960. The diocese covers ...
from 1997 to 2003.


Biography

Jean Baptiste Bùi Tuần was born on 24 June 1928 in the commune of Cam Lai, now Đông Cơ,
Tiền Hải District The term ''tiền'' (chữ Hán: Wiktionary:錢, 錢) is used to refer to various currency-related concepts used in History of Vietnam, Vietnamese history. The name is a cognate with the Standard Mandarin, Chinese ''qián'' (錢), a unit of weig ...
, Thai Binh Province, Vietnam, to poor but devout peasant parents. Bishop Jean-Baptiste Bùi Tuần died in
Long Xuyên Long Xuyên (), formally named Thủ Đông Xuyên, is the capital city of An Giang province, in the Mekong Delta region of south-western Vietnam. History In 1789, a group of explorers established a small outpost in the Tam Khe canal, naming i ...
, Vietnam on 27 July 2024, at the age of 96.


Education and Priesthood

In 1954, following the division of Vietnam, he fled to
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, where he was ordained a priest on 2 September 1955. He returned to southern Vietnam and was sent to
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for further studies. After obtaining a
bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years ...
in
philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
, he was sent to Switzerland, where he earned a doctorate in philosophy, and completed his studies in Germany. Upon returning to his homeland, he was appointed director of the major seminary of Long Xuyên and a teacher at the seminary in
Rạch Giá Rạch Giá () is a provincial city and the capital city of Kiên Giang province, Vietnam. It is located on the Eastern coast of the Gulf of Thailand, southwest of Ho Chi Minh City. East of city, it borders Tân Hiệp and Châu Thành town, t ...
. In the following years, he dedicated his pastoral service to caring for refugees amidst the backdrop of the civil war.


Episcopal ministry

On 15 April 1975,
Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI (born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXII ...
appointed him as the coadjutor bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Long Xuyên The diocese of Long Xuyên () is a Latin Catholic diocese of Vietnam. The bishop is Joseph Trần Xuân Tiếu, Joseph Trân Xuân Tiéu, since 2003. The creation of the diocese in present form was declared November 24, 1960. The diocese covers ...
. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 April of the same year by Bishop Michael Nguyễn Khắc Ngữ, almost in secret while the
Vietnam People's Army Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
captured Saigon and Vietnam was reunified under the Communist government of
Hanoi Hanoi ( ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Vietnam, second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river" (Hanoi is bordered by the Red River (Asia), Red and Black River (Asia), Black Riv ...
. He succeeded to the same position on 30 December 1997, and remained in office for almost six years until his retirement due to age limits on 2 October 2003. He is also known in his homeland for his activity as a writer, having published several texts and collections of poems, as well as his main work ''Thao thức'' (translatable as "Restlessness"), a series of five volumes published in 2007.


Episcopal lineage and apostolic succession

The
episcopal lineage The historic or historical episcopate comprises all episcopates, that is, it is the collective body of all the bishops of a group who are in valid apostolic succession. This succession is transmitted from each bishop to their successors by the r ...
is: *
Patriarch The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Roman Catholic Church (above major archbishop and primate), the Hussite Church, Church of the East, and some Independent Catholic Churches are termed patriarchs (and ...
Eliya XII Denha * Patriarch
Yohannan VIII Hormizd Yohannan VIII Hormizd (often referred to by European missionaries as ''John Hormez'' or ''Hanna Hormizd'') (1760–1838) was the last hereditary patriarch of the Eliya line of the Church of the East and the first patriarch of a united Chalde ...
* Bishop
Yohannan Gabriel Yohannan Gabriel (or ''Jean Guriel'', 1758–1833) was bishop of Salmas (Chaldean Archdiocese), Salmas of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1795 to his death. Life Isho'yahb Gabriel was born in Khosrowabad, West Azerbaijan, Khosrowa in 1758 and ...
*
Archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ...
Augustine Hindi Mar Joseph V Augustine Hindi (died 3 April 1827) was the patriarchal administrator of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1781 to 1827. Since 1804 he considered himself Patriarch with the name of Joseph V and from 1812 to his death he governed both ...
* Patriarch
Joseph VI Audo Joseph VI Audo (or ''Audu'' or ''Oddo'') (1790–1878) was the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1847 to 1878. Early life Joseph Audo was born in Alqosh in 1790 and in 1814 he became a monk of the monastery of Rabban Hormizd. He was ...
* Patriarch Eliya XIV Abulyonan * Patriarch
Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas Mar Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas (August 8, 1852 - July 21, 1947) was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1900 until his death in 1947. Life He was born on August 8, 1852, in Alqosh. An ethnic Assyrian, he studied in the Ghazir Se ...
* Bishop
François David François David (October 14, 1870 – October 1, 1939) was an ethnic Assyrian who served as the Chaldean Catholic Bishop of Amadiyah in Iraq. He was consecrated as bishop by Chaldean Patriarch Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas on August 15, 1910. He ...
* Archbishop Antonin-Fernand Drapier, O.P. * Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục * Bishop Michel Nguyễn Khắc Ngư * Bishop Jean Baptiste Bùi Tuần The
apostolic succession Apostolic succession is the method whereby the Christian ministry, ministry of the Christian Church is considered by some Christian denominations to be derived from the Twelve Apostles, apostles by a continuous succession, which has usually been ...
is: * Bishop Joseph Trần Xuân Tiếu (1999) * Archbishop
Joseph Ngô Quang Kiệt Joseph Ngô Quang Kiệt (born 4 September 1952 in Lạng Sơn Province, Vietnam) is the Archbishop Emeritus of Hanoi where he served as archbishop from 2005 to 2010. In 1993, he studied at the Institut Catholique de Paris, France. Before b ...
(1999)


References

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