Joseph Nguyễn Tấn Tước

Vietnamese prelate (born 1958)

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The Most Reverend Joseph Nguyễn Tấn Tước
Bishop of Phú Cường

Native name	Giuse Nguyễn Tấn Tước
Province	Sài Gòn
See	Phú Cường
Appointed	14 March 2011 (as Coadjutor)
Installed	30 June 2012
Predecessor	Pierre Trần Đình Tứ
Other post(s)	Head of Episcopal Committee on Social Communications
Orders
Ordination	4 April 1991 by Louis Hà Kim Danh
Consecration	29 April 2011 by Peter Trần Đình Tứ
Personal details
Born	(1958-09-22) 22 September 1958 (age 65) Bình Dương, Republic of Việt Nam
Nationality	Vietnamese
Denomination	Catholic
Residence	444 Cách Mạng Tháng Tám, Thủ Dầu Một, Bình Dương
Previous post(s)	Coadjutor Bishop of Phú Cường (2011-2012)
Motto	Illum oportet crescere (Vietnamese: Ngài phải lớn lên) (English: He must increase)

Joseph Nguyễn Tấn Tước is a Vietnamese prelate. He is the current Bishop of Phú Cường and the Head of the Episcopal Committee on Social Communications.^[1]

Biography

He was born on 22 September 1958, in Bình Dương, Vietnam. From 1971 to 1978, he studied philosophy and theology at local seminaries. On 4 April 1991, he was ordained a priest by Bishop Louis Hà Kim Danh, the second bishop of Phú Cường. In 1999, he was sent to France to continue his studies at the Institut Catholique de Paris until 2006. After returning to Vietnam, he worked at the Phú Cường diocese's Pastoral Center.

Pope Benedict XVI appointed him as Coadjutor Bishop of Phú Cường on 14 March 2011. He was consecrated a bishop by Bishop Pierre Trần Đình Tứ, the third bishop of Phú Cường, on 29 April that year.

He succeeded Bishop Pierre Trần Đình Tứ, who was retiring, to be the fourth bishop of Phú Cường on 30 June 2012.

References

^ "Biên bản Đại Hội lần thứ XII Hội đồng Giám mục Việt Nam" (in Vietnamese). Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam. Archived from the original on 23 December 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2015.