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Paul Bùi Văn Đọc
Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City
(2014-2018)
See Ho Chi Minh City
Enthroned 22 March 2014
Reign ended 6 March 2018
Predecessor Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn
Successor vacant
Other posts President of Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam
Orders
Ordination 17 December 1970
Consecration 20 May 1999
by Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn
Personal details
Born 11 November 1944
Đà Lạt, French Indochina
(now Đà Lạt, Vietnam)
Died 6 March 2018(2018-03-06) (aged 73)
Rome, Italy
Nationality Vietnamese
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  • Apostolic Administrator of Mỹ Tho (28 Sep 2013 - 30 Aug 2014)
  • Coadjutor Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City (28 Sep 2013 - 22 Mar 2014)
  • Diocesan Bishop of Mỹ Tho (26 Mar 1999 - 28 Sep 2013)
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In this Vietnamese name, the family name is Bùi. According to Vietnamese custom, this person should be called by the given name Đọc.

Archbishop Paul Bùi Văn Đọc (11 November 1944 – 6 March 2018) was a Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City from 2014 to 2018 and the President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam from 2013 to 2016.

He died of a stroke in Rome on 6 March 2018 at the age of 73.

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