Roman Catholic Diocese Of Da Lat
The Diocese of Ðà Lat (Latin: Dioecesis Dalatensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese of Vietnam, headquartered in the southern city of Da Lat, Lam Dong Province.
The diocese had become a vacant see (sede vacante) on the appointment of Archbishop Pierre Nguyên Van Nhon as Coadjutor Archbishop - auxiliary, or assistant, bishop with the right of automatic succession - of the Archdiocese of Hanoi (he became the Archbishop there). On Tuesday, March 1, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI, named Bishop Antoine Vu Huy Chuong, 66, who had until then been the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hung Hoa (which is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Hanoi), as Bishop of the Da Lat Diocese. More than 20% of the one million people living in the Diocese of Da Lat are Roman Catholics, and many belong to ethnic minorities. The Da Lat Diocese has 326,120 Catholics served by 181 priests and 1,093 religious.
The diocese covers an area of 10,172 km² of southern Vietnam, and is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Thành-Phô Hô Chí Minh. It was created on November 24, 1960. In 1967 part of it was split off and became part of the diocese of Ban Mê Thuôt.
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