Thaddeus Lê Hữu Từ Explained

Honorific-Prefix:	The Most Reverend
Thaddeus Anselm Lê Hữu Từ
Honorific-Suffix:	O.Cist.
Native Name:	Lê Hữu Từ
Native Name Lang:	vi
Vicar Apostolic of Phát Diệm
Diocese:	Phát Diệm
See:	Daphnusia
Appointed:	14 June 1945
Term Start:	1 November 1945
Term End:	1959
Predecessor:	Jean Maria Phan Đình Phùng
Successor:	Paul Bùi Chu Tạo
Ordination:	22 December 1928
Consecration:	29 October 1945
Birth Date:	28 October 1896
Birth Place:	Di Loan, Vĩnh Linh, Quảng Trị, French Indochina
Death Place:	Gò Vấp, Saigon, South Vietnam
Motto:	Vox clamantis in deserto (A voice of one crying in the desert)

Thaddeus Anselm Lê Hữu Từ

Thaddeus 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.^[1] He was also 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, Từ was an ardent opponent of both French colonialism and Vietnamese communism.^[2]

Further reading

• Book: Đoàn Độc Thư . Xuân Huy . Giám mục Lê Hữu Từ & Phát Diệm 1945–1954: Những năm tranh đấu hào hùng . 1973 . Sử liệu Hiện đại . Sài Gòn .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chân dung tiểu sử Đức Cha Anselmô Tađêô Lê Hữu Từ . Diocese of Phát Diệm . 24 April 2020.
2. Encyclopedia: Goscha . Christopher E. . Christopher Goscha . Lê Hữu Từ . Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War (1945–1954): An International and Interdisciplinary Approach . 262–263 . 2011 . University of Hawaiʻi Press . 9780824836047 .