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diocese of
Vietnam
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.
The creation of the diocese in present form was declared November 24, 1960.
The diocese covers an area of , and is a
suffragan diocese
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of the Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh city.
By 2004, the diocese of Cần Thơ had about 176,424 believers (3% of the population), 153
priest
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s and 131
parish
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es.
Sacred Heart
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Cathedral in
Cần Thơ
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has been assigned as the
Cathedral
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of the
diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...
*Jacques Nguyễn Ngọc Quang (22 March 1965 - 11 March 1968)
*Emmanuel Lê Phong Thuận (6 June 1975 - 20 June 1990)
*Stephanus Tri Bửu Thiên (26 November 2002 - 17 October 2010)
* Peter Lê Tấn Lợi (25 March 2023 - 1 January 2025)
Other secular clergy who became bishops
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Antoine Nguyễn Văn Thiện
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Born in ...
Louis Hà Kim Danh
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Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn
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Antoine Vũ Huy Chương
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Can Tho
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