Joseph Nguyễn Tấn Tước is a
Vietnamese
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** Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese people living outside Vietna ...
prelate. He is the current
Bishop of Phú Cường and the Head of the
Episcopal Committee on Social Communications.
Biography
He was born on 22 September 1958, in
Bình Dương,
Vietnam
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. From 1971 to 1978, he studied philosophy and theology at local seminaries. On 4 April 1991, he was ordained a priest by Bishop
Louis Hà Kim Danh
Louis Hà Kim Danh (21 June 1913 – 22 February 1995) was a Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate. He was bishop of Phú Cường from 1993 to 1995.Institut Catholique de Paris
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History: 1875–present
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until 2006. After returning to Vietnam, he worked at the Phú Cường diocese's Pastoral Center.
Pope Benedict XVI
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appointed him as
Coadjutor Bishop of Phú Cường on 14 March 2011. He was consecrated a bishop by Bishop
Pierre Trần Đình Tứ
Pierre Trần Đình Tứ is a Vietnamese prelate. He is currently the Bishop Emeritus of Phú Cường and the Head of the Episcopal Committee on the Divine Worship.
Biography
Tứ was born on 2 March 1937 in Thái Bình, Vietnam. In 1948, ...
, the third bishop of Phú Cường, on 29 April that year.
He succeeded Bishop Pierre Trần Đình Tứ, who was retiring, to be the fourth
bishop of Phú Cường on 30 June 2012.
References
External links
Catholic Hierarchy: Bishop Giuse Nguyễn Tấn Tước
Notes
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1958 births
Living people
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Vietnam
People from Bình Dương province
Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishops