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Diocese of Hung Hoá

Hung Hoaën(sis)

The Latin rite Diocese of Hung Hoa in northwestern Vietnam was erected as an Apostolic Vicariate on 15 April 1895 and elevated to a diocese on 24 November 1960. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hanoi covering roughly 58,000 km2, its cathedral is the Cathedral of Saint Therese the Little Flower of Jesus in Son Loc.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
24 November 1960
Latin
Hung Hoaën(sis)
Patron
Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
Annuario code
001001629

The see in figures

Catholics
267,400
Population
8,010,300
Catholic share
3.3%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
189
Catholics per priest
1,415
Extent
58,000 km²
Catholics per km²
4.6

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Dominic Hoang Minh Tien
Born
7 January 1969
Birthplace
Bao Loc

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Cathedral of Saint Therese the Little Flower of Jesus, Son Loc stands in Hung Hoá, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Hanoi

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Hanoi.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

What is kept by invitation

The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.

The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].