Type: | bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Joseph Nguyễn Tấn Tước | |
Native Name: | Giuse Nguyễn Tấn Tước |
Native Name Lang: | vi |
Bishop of Phú Cường | |
Province: | Sài Gòn |
See: | Phú Cường |
Appointed: | 14 March 2011 (as Coadjutor) |
Term Start: | 30 June 2012 |
Predecessor: | Pierre Trần Đình Tứ |
Other Post: | Head of Episcopal Committee on Social Communications |
Ordination: | 4 April 1991 |
Ordained By: | Louis Hà Kim Danh |
Consecration: | 29 April 2011 |
Consecrated By: | Peter Trần Đình Tứ |
Birth Date: | 22 September 1958 |
Birth Place: | Bình Dương, Republic of Việt Nam |
Nationality: | Vietnamese |
Religion: | 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) |
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]
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.