Pope Leo XIV appoints Bishop Michael Pham to lead San Diego diocese, marking his first American bishop appointment.

(RNS) — In his first United States episcopal appointment, Pope Leo XIV named Michael Pham bishop of San Diego on Thursday ...

Pope Leo XIV appointed Auxiliary Bishop Michael Pham as the new bishop of San Diego, making him the first Vietnamese-American ...

Picked to lead the San Diego Diocese, Michael Pham is Pope Leo XIV's first appointment of a bishop in the United States. Pham ...

Michael Pham knows what it feels like to struggle for breath in a cloud of tear gas. Pham was born in Vietnam in 1967 as the war reached a boiling point, and his family repeatedly tried to flee the ...

The Diocese of San Diego is comprised of 8,852 square miles and has a total population of 3,454,921 -- 1,381,968 of which ...

Michael Pham, 58, is currently an auxiliary bishop in the diocese; he was ordained a priest in the San Diego diocese in 1999.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Michael M. Pham of San Diego to head the diocese.

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Pope Leo XIV has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Michael M. Pham of San Diego to head the diocese.

Bishop-elect Michael Pham was appointed the San Diego Diocese’s temporary administrator after Cardinal Robert McElroy was ...