1342 Bùi Chu Diocese, North Vietnam, gains new Salesian Auxiliary
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Bùi Chu Diocese, North Vietnam, gains new Salesian
Auxiliary
ROME: 29th November 2005 -- Pope Benedict XVI has
today appointed Fr Peter Nguyen Van De as auxiliary bishop to the Bùi
Chu diocese, North Vietnam. The news appears to have been
announced by Cardinal Sepe on a visit to Vietnam. Unusually, this
announcement has caught a number of people by surprise. Further
information is being sought.
Fr Peter Nguyen Van De will be auxiliary to Bishop
Joseph Hoang Van Tiem, also a Salesian, appointed in 2001 and
consecrated bishop on 8th August of that year. Bishop elect Van
De will be titular bishop of Ammaedara. His predecessor in
that titular See was Bishop José Godard, Vicar Apostolic of Pucallpa,
Peru, who died on 13th November.
Bishop-elect Van De was born 15th January 1946 and
was professed as a Salesian on 15th August 1965. He was ordained
priest on 17th December 1973, all of which means that he is just
turning 60 with 32 years of priesthood behind him. He was
provincial of Vietnam from 1991-1997, after which he was appointed
Rector of the Formation Community in Xuan Hiep. More recently,
however, he has been teaching at the seminary in Hanoi.
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