Paul Joseph Phạm Đình Tụng

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His Eminence

Paul Joseph Pham Ðình Tung
Hòa Bình, Vietnam
Died22 February 2009(2009-02-22) (aged 89)
NationalityVietnamese
Previous post(s)Bishop of Bac Ninh (1963-1994)
MottoCredidimus Caritate
Coat of armsPaul Joseph Pham Ðình Tung's coat of arms

Paul Joseph Phạm Đình Tụng (15 June 1919 – 22 February 2009) (Vietnamese: Phao-lô Giu-se Phạm Đình Tụng) was a Vietnamese cardinal.[1]

Ecclesiastical career

He was ordained to the

Joseph Ngô Quang Kiêt.[4]

Since nearly the very beginning of his religious life, he was under house arrest, unable to carry out his duties to the nearly 100 parishes under his jurisdiction.

He began to compile in

John Paul II during the Consistory of 26 November 1994.[1] He resigned the pastoral government of the archdiocese on 19 February 2005. He died on 22 February 2009 at the age of 89.[5] He was succeeded by Joseph Ngô Quang Kiệt
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