Joseph Nguyễn Tấn Tước

Joseph Nguyễn Tấn Tước
Bishop of Phú Cường
See Diocese of Phú Cường
Installed 30 June 2012
Predecessor Pierre Trần Đình Tứ
Successor incumbent
Other posts Head of Episcopal Committee on Social Communications
Orders
Ordination 4 April 1991
by Louis Hà Kim Danh
Consecration 29 April 2011
by Peter Trần Đình Tứ
Personal details
Born (1958-09-22) 22 September 1958
Bình Dương
Nationality Vietnamese
Denomination Roman Catholic
Residence

444 Cách Mạng Tháng Tám,

Thủ Dầu Một, Bình Dương
Previous post Coadjutor Bishop of Phú Cường
(2011-2012)
Motto Illum Oportet Crescere (Vietnamese: Ngài Phải Lớn Lên, English: He Must Increase)
In this Vietnamese name, the family name is Nguyễn. According to Vietnamese custom, this person should properly be referred to by the given name Tước.

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

Joseph Tước was born on September 22, 1958 in Bình Dương, Vietnam. From 1971 to 1978, he studied philosophy and theology at local seminaries. On April 4, 1991, he was ordained a priest by Monsignor 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 March 14, 2011. Joseph Tước was consecrated a bishop by Monsignor Pierre Trần Đình Tứ, the third Bishop of Phú Cường, on April 29 that year.

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

References

  1. "Biên bản Đại Hội lần thứ XII Hội đồng Giám mục Việt Nam" (in Vietnamese). Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam. Retrieved 18 January 2015.

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Notes

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Pierre Trần Đình Tứ
Bishop of Phú Cường
2012now
Succeeded by
incumbent
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