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Diocese of Kon Tum

Bishop Michael Duc Oanh Hoang
Bishop Michael Duc Oanh  Hoang
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Bishop Michael Duc Oanh Hoang
Bishop's House 146 Tran Hung Dao st., Thang Loi ward, Kon Tum city, Vietnam
+84 60 3862 372
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Bishop Michael Hoang Duc Oanh was born on Oct. 23, 1938 in Ha Noi. After he entered a minor seminary in Sai Gon, now Ho Chi Minh City, in 1952, he studied philosophy and theology at the Pius X Pontifical Insitute based in Da Lat city from 1960-1969. He was ordained a priest for Kontum diocese on Dec. 22, 1968. He worked at local schools, parishes and minor seminary. In 1996 he served as vicar general until Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Kontum on July 16, 2003. His episcopal ordination was held at the Our Lady of Immaculate Conception Cathedral on Aug. 28 that year. He is the sixth prelate of the diocese.

Bishop Oanh speaks Latin, French, English and indigenous ethnic dialects of Bana, Jarai and Sedang.
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