Paul Joseph Phạm Đình Tụng (15 June 1919 – 22 February 2009) () was a

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''(by Vietnamese)'' Retrieved 15 February 2019.

Ecclesiastical career

He was ordained to the priesthood on 6 June 1949. He was

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of Hàm Long Parish, in

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, from 1950 to 1955. Afterwards he served as Superior of St. John Minor Seminary, in Hanoi, from 1955 to 1963. The Seminary was closed by the State authority in 1960 and never opened again. He was created

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in 1963. He was appointed archbishop of

in 13 April 1994 and elevated to

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in November 1994. He retired as archbishop of Hanoi in 2005 and was succeeded by Archbishop Joseph Ngô Quang Kiêt. Since nearly the very beginning of his religious life, he was under

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, unable to carry out his duties to the nearly 100

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es under his jurisdiction. He began to compile in

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the entire life of

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, the

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, and the commandments of God and the Church. He was created a Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Regina Pacis in Ostia Mare by

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during the

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of 26 November 1994. He resigned the pastoral government of the archdiocese on 19 February 2005. He died on 22 February 2009 at the age of 89."Hồng y Phạm Đình Tụng qua đời"
''(by Vietnamese)'' Retrieved 15 February 2019. He was succeeded by Joseph Ngô Quang Kiệt.

References

External links

catholic-hierarchy page of Paul Joseph Pham Dinh Tung

1919 births 2009 deaths People from Hòa Bình province Vietnamese cardinals Cardinals created by Pope John Paul II 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Vietnam Vietnamese Roman Catholic archbishops Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishops {{RC-cardinal-stub