Diocese of Đà Lạt
The Diocese of Đà Lat is a Latin suffragan diocese of Roman Catholic church in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Saigon in southern Vietnam, yet depends on the missionary Dicastery for Evangelization.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Cathedral of Saint Nicholas of Bari, in the southern city of Da Lat, Lâm Đồng Province, Central Highlands.
Its present Bishop is Dominic Nguyễn Văn Mạnh, since September 16, 2019.
Statistics and extent
As per 2014, it pastorally served 368,487 Catholics on 9,764 km2 in 87 parishes and 16 missions with 259 priests, 1,413 lay religious and 69 seminarians. Many of its faithful belong to ethnic minorities.History
- The bishopric was created on November 24, 1960, as Diocese of Đà Lat / Ðàlạt / 大叻 / Dalaten, on territories split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Saigon and the then Apostolic Vicariate of Kontum
- On 22 June 1967 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Ban Mê Thuôt.
Ordinaries
Coadjutor Bishops- Bishop Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn
- Bishop Dominic Nguyễn Văn Mạnh
Other secular clergy who became bishops
- Paul Nguyễn Văn Hòa, appointed Bishop of Phan Thiết in 1975 and shortly after Bishop of Nha Trang
- Paul Bùi Văn Đọc, appointed Bishop of Mỹ Tho in 1999, later Coadjutor Archbishop of Hồ Chi Minh City, and subsequently succeeded as well as President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Việt Nam
- Joseph Võ Đức Minh, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Nha Trang in 2005 and subsequently succeeded
- Joseph Nguyễn Đức Cường, appointed Bishop of Thanh Hóa in 2018