Denomination Roman Catholic Rite Roman Rite Area 9,764 km² Patron saint Saint Nicholas Metropolitan archbishop Paul Bùi Văn Đọc | Sui iuris church Latin Church Established 24 November 1960 Country Vietnam Bishop Antoine Vu Huy Chuong | |
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Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2006)
1,169,925
299,339 (25.6%) Cathedral Cathedral of St Nicholas of Myra in Da Lat Ecclesiastical province Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City | ||
The Diocese of Đà Lat (Latin: Dioecesis Dalatensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese of Vietnam, headquartered in the southern city of Da Lat, Lâm Đồng Province.
The diocese had become a vacant see (sede vacante) on the appointment of Archbishop Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn 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 Vũ Huy Chương, 66, who had until then been the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hưng Hóa (which is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Hanoi), as Bishop of the Đà 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 Đà 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 Ho Chi Minh City. 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.