Vincent Long Van Nguyen
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Vincent Long Van Nguyen is a bishop in the archdiocese of Melbourne
, Australia.
He was born in 1961 in Gia-Kiem, Vietnam, and joined the diocesan minor seminary. He and his family came to Australia in a refugee boat in 1980.
In 1983, Nguyen became a Conventual Franciscan friar and studied for the priesthood in Melbourne. After his priestly ordination on 30 December 1989, he went to Rome for further studies and was awarded a licentiate in Christology and Spirituality from the Pontifical Faculty of St Bonaventure.
He served as a parish priest for four years in Kellyville, NSW, and for seven years in Springvale.
He was elected superior of the Order of Friars Minor Conventuals in Australia in 2005.
Since 2008, he has been in Rome serving as Assistant General, responsible for the Asia-Oceania section of order.
Pope Benedict XVI appointed Fr Vincent as auxiliary bishop in his archdiocese in May 2011.
4000 people packed [St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne on June 23 for his episcopal ordination. Archbishop Denis Hart
, Archbishop of Melbourne, was the principal consecrator and Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto
, Apostolic Nuncio, and George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, were co-consecrators.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne is a Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Erected initially in 1847 as the Diocese of Melbourne, a suffragan diocese of Archdiocese of Sydney, the diocese was elevated in 1874 as an archdiocese of the...
, Australia.
He was born in 1961 in Gia-Kiem, Vietnam, and joined the diocesan minor seminary. He and his family came to Australia in a refugee boat in 1980.
In 1983, Nguyen became a Conventual Franciscan friar and studied for the priesthood in Melbourne. After his priestly ordination on 30 December 1989, he went to Rome for further studies and was awarded a licentiate in Christology and Spirituality from the Pontifical Faculty of St Bonaventure.
He served as a parish priest for four years in Kellyville, NSW, and for seven years in Springvale.
He was elected superior of the Order of Friars Minor Conventuals in Australia in 2005.
Since 2008, he has been in Rome serving as Assistant General, responsible for the Asia-Oceania section of order.
Pope Benedict XVI appointed Fr Vincent as auxiliary bishop in his archdiocese in May 2011.
4000 people packed [St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne on June 23 for his episcopal ordination. Archbishop Denis Hart
Denis Hart
Denis James Hart, DD is a Roman Catholic bishop, elected as the 8th Archbishop of Archdiocese of Melbourne, since 2001.-Early years and background:...
, Archbishop of Melbourne, was the principal consecrator and Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto
Giuseppe Lazzarotto
Giuseppe Lazzarotto JCD was born in Carpanè, Italy on 24 May 1942. He studied for the priesthood in the Diocese of Padua, being ordained a priest on 1 April 1967. He undertook post-graduate studies in diplomacy at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome, while at the same time completing his...
, Apostolic Nuncio, and George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, were co-consecrators.