Type: | Bishop |
Honorific Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Michel Nguyễn Khắc Ngữ | |
Native Name: | Micae Nguyễn Khắc Ngữ |
Native Name Lang: | vi |
Bishop of Long Xuyên | |
Church: | Catholic |
Province: | Sài Gòn |
See: | Long Xuyên |
Appointed: | 24 November 1960 |
Term Started: | 4 April 1961 |
Term Ended: | 30 December 1997 |
Successor: | Jean Baptiste Bùi Tuần |
Ordination: | 29 June 1934 |
Consecration: | 22 January 1961 |
Consecrated By: | Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục |
Birth Date: | 2 February 1909 |
Death Place: | Long Xuyên, Việt Nam |
Michel Nguyễn Khắc Ngữ (2 February 1909 – 10 June 2009[1]) was a Vietnamese prelate in the Roman Catholic Church.
Ngư was born in Vạn Đồn, Indochina in 1909, and was ordained as a priest on 29 June 1934. He was appointed bishop of the newly created Diocese of Long Xuyên on 24 November 1960, and received his episcopal consecration on 22 January 1961. Ngư retired from the Diocese of Long Xuyên on 30 December 1997, at the age of 88. He died on 10 June 2009, at the age of 100. At the time of his death he was the third oldest living Roman Catholic bishop,