Thaddeus Lê Hữu Từ
Vietnamese Catholic bishop (1897-1967)
Thaddeus Anselmus Lê Hữu Từ (28 October 1896 – 24 April 1967) was a Vietnamese Catholic prelate who served as the Apostolic Vicar of Phát Diệm from 1945 to 1959.
Từ was a supreme advisor to the early government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. As a leading Vietnamese Catholic nationalist figure during the First Indochina War, he was an ardent opponent of both French colonialism and Vietnamese communism. As a leader of the Northern Catholic faction, one of the 'Big Five' groups that accommodated themselves to the State of Vietnam, Từ urged Bảo Đại to grant Vietnam a constitution during the 1953 crisis, a period that demanded greater national autonomy from France.
References
Tran, Nu-Anh (2022). Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam. University of Hawaiʻi Press. ISBN 9780824887865.
Further reading
Đoàn Độc Thư; Xuân Huy (1973). Giám mục Lê Hữu Từ & Phát Diệm 1945–1954: Những năm tranh đấu hào hùng (PDF).
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