Roman Catholic Diocese of Đà Lạt

Diocese of Ðà Lat Dioecesis Dalatensis Giáo phận Ðà Lạt
230px Đa Lạt Cathedral
Location
Country	Vietnam
Ecclesiastical province	Ho Chi Minh
Metropolitan	Ho Chi Minh
Statistics
Area
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 1,169,925 299,339 (25.6%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	24 November 1960
Cathedral	Cathedral of St Nicholas of Myra in Da Lat
Patron saint	Saint Nicholas
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Antoine Vũ Huy Chương
Metropolitan Archbishop	Paul Bùi Văn Đọc
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Đà Lat (Latin: Dioecesis Dalatensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese of Vietnam, headquartered in the southern city of Da Lat, Lâm Đồng Province.

The diocese had become a vacant see (sede vacante) on the appointment of Archbishop Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn as Coadjutor Archbishop - auxiliary, or assistant, bishop with the right of automatic succession - of the Archdiocese of Hanoi (he became the Archbishop there). On Tuesday, March 1, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI, named Bishop Antoine Vũ Huy Chương, 66, who had until then been the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hưng Hóa (which is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Hanoi), as Bishop of the Đà Lat Diocese. More than 20% of the one million people living in the Diocese of Da Lat are Roman Catholics, and many belong to ethnic minorities. The Đà Lat Diocese has 326,120 Catholics served by 181 priests and 1,093 religious.

The diocese covers an area of 10,172 km² of southern Vietnam, and is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City. It was created on November 24, 1960. In 1967 part of it was split off and became part of the Diocese of Ban Mê Thuôt.

Bishops of Đà Lat

• Bishop Simon Hoà Nguyễn Văn Hiền (24 Nov 1960 – 5 Sep 1973)
• Bishop Barthélémy Nguyễn Sơn Lâm, P.S.S. (30 Jan 1975 – 23 Mar 1994)
• Bishop Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn (23 Mar 1994 – 22 Apr 2010); currently Archbishop of Hanoi, Vietnam
• Bishop Antoine Vũ Huy Chương (1 Mar 2011 – present); had been Bishop of Hưng Hóa, Vietnam

External links

• General Information on the diocese