Pierre Trần Đình Tứ is a

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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

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. In 1948, he went to My Duc Minor Seminary. From 1954 to 1957, he was sent to study

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. After his return to Vietnam, he studied

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at Saint Joseph Major Seminary in Sai Gon (now Ho Chi Minh City) from 1961 to 1965. On 29 April 1965, he was ordained a priest and served at parishes in Phú Cường diocese. In 1968, he was sent to Rome to further his studies and obtained a

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and

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liturgy Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. As a religious phenomenon, liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through activities reflecting praise, thanksgiving, remembra ...

. He then became the rector of a local major seminary from 1975 to 1988, and taught at Saint Joseph Major Seminary in Ho Chi Minh City, from 1987 to 1988. On 5 November 1998, he was appointed Bishop of Phú Cường, the third bishop of this diocese. He was consecrated a bishop on 6 January 1999 in Rome by

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. He was one of the two

bishops who got consecrated by the Pope in Rome, the other was Jean-Baptiste Nguyễn Bá Tòng, the first Vietnamese bishop. On 30 June 2012,

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accepted Pierre Tứ's resignation due to age limit, and named Joseph Nguyễn Tấn Tước his successor.

References

External links

Catholic Hierarchy: Bishop Pierre Trần Đình Tứ

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Trần, Pierre, Đình Tứ 1937 births Living people 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Vietnam 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Vietnam Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishops