While I am shocked that the Lord has asked me to be a bishop, I must admit that knowing the people of this diocese brings me ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed The Rev. Simon Peter Engurait to be the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, the ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — On Thursday, Pope Leo XIV appointed Auxiliary Bishop Michael Pham as the new bishop of San Diego, making him the first Vietnamese-American bishop in the United States.

a position in the Vatican that advises the Pope on the selection of bishops around the world." The Diocese of San Diego is comprised of 8,852 square miles and has a total population of 3,454,921 ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California.

A half-century later, Pham, a longtime San Diego priest who had been made an auxiliary bishop for the diocese in 2023, was announced as Pope Leo XIV's first appointment of a bishop in the United ...

(RNS) — In his first United States episcopal appointment, Pope Leo XIV named Michael Pham bishop of San Diego on Thursday (May 22). Pham fled Vietnam as a refugee in 1980 and has spent over 25 ...

Pham, who was born in Da Nang, Vietnam, was ordained a priest in the San Diego diocese in 1999 and was made a bishop in 2023. He was in charge of programming for the dioceses’ ethnic groups and ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California.Pham, 58, is currently an ...