See Ho Chi Minh City Successor incumbent Consecration 20 May 1999 Predecessor Phạm Minh Mẫn | Installed 22 March 2014 Nationality Vietnamese Ordination 17 December 1970 | |
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Born 11 November 1944 (age 72)Đà Lạt ( 1944-11-11 ) Previous post Apostolic Administrator of Mỹ Tho (28 Sep 2013 - 30 Aug 2014)Coadjutor Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City (28 Sep 2013 - 22 Mar 2014)Diocesan Bishop of Mỹ Tho (26 Mar 1999 - 28 Sep 2013) Other post Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam | ||
Paul Bùi Văn Đọc is a Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church. He is the current Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City and the President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam since 2013.
Biography
Paul Đọc was born on November 11, 1944 in Da Lat, Vietnam. In 1956, he started to study at a seminary in Sai Gon (now Ho Chi Minh City). He then continued his studies in philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, from 1964 to 1970. He was ordained a priest on December 17, 1970 in Da Lat and served as the Rector of Minh Hoa Major Seminary from 1975 until he became Vicar General of Da Lat diocese in 1995.
On March 26, 1999, he was appointed as Bishop of My Tho by Pope John Paul II and was consecrated by Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn, Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City on May 20 the same year.
He was named Coadjutor Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City on September 28, 2013 by Pope Francis. On March 22, 2014, he succeeded Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn, upon the latter's resignation due to age limit.