Joseph Phạm Văn Thiên Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:His Excellency, The Most Reverend
Joseph Phạm Văn Thiên
Native Name:Giuse Phạm Văn Thiên
Native Name Lang:vi
Bishop of Phú Cường
Province:Sài Gòn
See:Phú Cường
Appointed:14 October 1965
Term Start:12 January 1966
Term End:10 May 1993
Predecessor:Diocese erected
Successor:Louis Hà Kim Danh
Ordination:17 March 1934
Consecration:6 January 1966
Consecrated By:Paul Nguyễn Văn Bình
Birth Date:1907 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Đất Đỏ, Phước Tuy, French Indochina
Death Place:Bình Dương, Việt Nam
Motto:Gratia Dei mecum
(The grace of God with me)
(Ơn Chúa ở cùng tôi)

Joseph Phạm Văn Thiên (2 May 1907 – 25 February 1997) was a Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate. He was bishop of Phú Cường from 1965 to 1993.[1] [2] [3]

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Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20120831014336/http://tgpsaigon.net/baiviet-tintuc/20091106/2943 Chân dung linh mục Việt Nam: Đức cha Giuse Phạm Văn Thiên
  2. http://www.vietcatholic.net/News/Html/72906.htm Đức cha Giuse Phạm Văn Thiên (1907–1997) Giám mục tiên khởi giáo phận Phú Cường
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20110611205231/http://hdgmvietnam.org/chan-dung-linh-muc-viet-nam-duc-cha-giuse-pham-van-thien/1005.43.13.aspx Đức cha Giuse PHẠM VĂN THIÊN (1907–1997) Giám mục tiên khởi giáo phận Phú Cường