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Vietnam has the fifth largest Catholic population in Asia, after the Philippines, India, China and Indonesia. There are about 7 million Catholics in Vietnam, representing 7.4% of the total population. [1] There are 27 dioceses (including three archdioceses) with 2,228 parishes and 2,668 priests. [2]
A government census of 2019 reported that Catholicism surpassed Buddhism to become the largest religious denomination in Vietnam, although these findings are based upon the membership of an organized religious institution rather than individual belief or practice of a religion and may reflect the lack of need or practice of membership to a ...
The first Catholic missionaries visited Vietnam from Portugal and Spain in the 16th century. In 1524, Portuguese merchant Duarte Coelho's fleet arrived in Hội An, central Vietnam, to trade, bringing along Catholic missionaries. [4] A missionary named I-nê-khu arrived in Nam Định, northern Vietnam, in 1533.
The diocese covers an area of 9,262 km 2 and is a suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City. By 2021, the diocese of Mỹ Tho had about 138,102 Catholics (3.0% of the population), 148 priests and 113 parishes. [2] Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Mỹ Tho town has been assigned as the Cathedral of the diocese. [3]
In November 2006, the Cua Bac Catholic Church in Hanoi became the venue of joint worship service of the Vietnamese Catholics and Protestants with participation of the United States president George W. Bush, who was on an official visit to Vietnam. Cua Bac Church (Northern Gate Church) has regular sermons and services in the English language and ...
The diocese of Hải Phòng (Latin: Dioecesis Haiphongensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in northern Vietnam.The bishop is Vincent Nguyên Văn Ban, since 2022. The creation of the diocese in its present form was declared 24 November 1960. The earliest forms of Roman Catholic institutions appeared in that territory since 1655, with
Cửa Bắc Church ("Northern Gate Church", Vietnamese: Nhà thờ Cửa Bắc, French: Église Cửa Bắc) is a Roman Catholic church in Hanoi, Vietnam.Originally named as Church of Our Lady of the Martyrs (Vietnamese: Nhà thờ Nữ Vương Các Thánh Tử Đạo), the church was built in 1931 by the French administration of Indochina as a part of the Hanoi's urban plan supervised by ...
Following the French conquest of Cochinchina and Saigon, the Roman Catholic Church established a community and religious services for French colonialists. The first church was built on today's Ngo Duc Ke Street, but it was too small. [when?] Bishop Lefevre decided to build a bigger church. Thus in 1863, Admiral Bonard decided to build a wooden ...