Paul Bùi Văn Đọc
Vietnamese archbishop (1944–2018)
Paul Bùi Văn Đọc (11 November 1944 – 6 March 2018) was a Vietnamese Catholic prelate who served as the third Archbishop of Hồ Chí Minh City from 2014 to 2018 and the President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam from 2013 to 2016. He previously served as the third Bishop of Mỹ Tho from 1999 to 2013 and was made coadjutor archbishop of Hồ Chí Minh City in 2013.
Biography
Bùi Văn Đọc was born on 11 November 1944 in Da Lat, French Indochina. In 1956, he studied at Saint Joseph Seminary in Sài Gòn (now Hồ Chí 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 17 December 1970 in Da Lat and served as the Rector of Minh Hoa Major Seminary from 1975 until he became vicar general of the Diocese of Đà Lạt in 1995.
On 26 March 1999, he was appointed Bishop of My Tho by Pope John Paul II and was consecrated by Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn, Archbishop of Hồ Chí Minh City on 20 May of the same year.
He was named Coadjutor Archbishop of Hồ Chí Minh City on 28 September 2013 by Pope Francis. On 22 March 2014, he succeeded Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn upon the latter's resignation.
He died on 6 March 2018 in Rome while participating in the ad limina visit of the conference of Vietnamese bishops.
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