Joseph Nguyễn Tấn Tước

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Joseph Nguyễn Tấn Tước
Bishop of Phú Cường
Native name
Giuse Nguyễn Tấn Tước
ProvinceHồ Chi Minh City
SeePhú Cường
Appointed14 March 2011 (as Coadjutor)
Installed30 June 2012
PredecessorPeter Trần Đình Tứ
Other post(s)Head of Episcopal Committee on Social Communications
Orders
Ordination4 April 1991
by Louis Hà Kim Danh
Consecration29 April 2011
by Peter Trần Đình Tứ
Personal details
Born (1958-09-22) 22 September 1958 (age 65)
NationalityVietnamese
DenominationCatholic
Residence444 Cách Mạng Tháng Tám,
Thủ Dầu Một, Bình Dương
Previous post(s)Coadjutor Bishop of Phú Cường
(2011-2012)
MottoIllum oportet crescere (Vietnamese: Ngài phải lớn lên)
(English: He must increase)

Joseph Nguyễn Tấn Tước is a Vietnamese prelate. He is the current Bishop of Phú Cường and the Head of the Episcopal Committee on Social Communications.[1]

Biography[edit]

He was born on 22 September 1958, in Bình Dương, Vietnam. From 1971 to 1978, he studied philosophy and theology at local seminaries. On 4 April 1991, he was ordained a priest by Bishop Louis Hà Kim Danh, the second bishop of Phú Cường. In 1999, he was sent to France to continue his studies at the Institut Catholique de Paris until 2006. After returning to Vietnam, he worked at the Phú Cường diocese's Pastoral Center.

Pope Benedict XVI appointed him as Coadjutor Bishop of Phú Cường on 14 March 2011. He was consecrated a bishop by Bishop Pierre Trần Đình Tứ, the third bishop of Phú Cường, on 29 April that year.

He succeeded Bishop Pierre Trần Đình Tứ, who was retiring, to be the fourth bishop of Phú Cường on 30 June 2012.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Biên bản Đại Hội lần thứ XII Hội đồng Giám mục Việt Nam" (in Vietnamese). Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam. Archived from the original on 23 December 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2015.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of Phú Cường
2012–now
Succeeded by
incumbent