Parishes 98 Sui iuris church Latin Church Area 24,462 km² Country Vietnam | Denomination Roman Catholic Rite Roman Rite Province Đắk Lắk Province Bishop Vincent Nguyên Van Ban | |
Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2012)
2,684,047
388,615 (14.5%) Cathedral Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Buôn Ma Thuột Address 02 Phan Chu Trinh, Thắng Lợi, Tp. Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk, Vietnam Ecclesiastical province Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Huế Metropolitan archbishop Francis Xavier Lê Văn Hồng | ||
Diocese of Ban Mê Thuột (Latin: Dioecesis Banmethuotensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese of Vietnam in the city of Buôn Ma Thuột (f.k.a. Ban Mê Thuột) in Đắk Lắk Province of the Central Highlands region. Joseph Nguyễn Tích Đức retired as bishop in 2007, and died as Bishop Emeritus on Monday, 23 May 2011, aged 73.
The Diocese of Ban Mê Thuôt was erected on 22 June 1967 by Pope Paul VI with territory from the dioceses of Đà Lạt and Kontum. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Huế. More than 10% of the two million people living in its area are Roman Catholics. Many of them belong to ethnic minorities.
References
Roman Catholic Diocese of Ban Mê Thuột Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA