Joseph Vũ Duy Thống

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Joseph Vũ Duy Thống (2 July 1952 – 1 March 2017) was a Vietnamese Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Phan Thiết from 2009 to his death in 2017. and the Head of the Episcopal Committee on Cultural Affairs.[1] He was Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City from 2001 to 2009.

Biography

Vũ Duy Thống was born on 2 July 1952, in Thái Bình, North Vietnam. After moving to South Vietnam, he studied philosophy and theology at seminaries in the Diocese of Long Xuyên and the Archdiocese of Sài Gòn. He was ordained a priest on 26 October 1985, for the Archdiocese of Hồ Chí Minh City. He then furthered his studies at the Institut Catholique de Paris and obtained a master's degree in theology in 1998. Later, he became a professor at the Saint Joseph Major Seminary of Sài Gòn.

On 4 July 2001, he was appointed an Auxiliary Bishop of Hồ Chí Minh City.[2] On August 17, 2001, he was ordained a bishop by Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn at the Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica.

On 25 July 2009, he was named the third Bishop of Phan Thiết, and was installed on 3 September 2009.

On 1 March 2017, Thống died after a few days in a coma.[3]

References

  1. 1."Committee on Culture | Committees | Church in Vietnam | Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam | CBCVietNam.org". Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  2. 2.http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory_print.asp?number=17240
  3. 3."Décès, à quelques jours d’intervalle, de deux évêques du Centre-Vietnam, appartenant à deux générations différentes", from Églises d'Asie