Phạm Đình Tụng

. Cardinal Phạm Đình Paul Joseph Tung, Vietn: Phao - lô Giu - se Phạm Đình Tung, ( born June 15, 1919 in Binh Hoa, Vietnam, † February 22, 2009 in Hanoi, Vietnam) was Archbishop of Hanoi.

Life

Phạm studied at the seminary of Hanoi Catholic theology and philosophy. He received on 6 June 1949, the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked as a pastor. 1963 he was appointed by Pope John XXIII. Bishop of Bac Ninh. He received his episcopal consecration Archbishop Joseph Marie Trinh Nhu Khue on 15 August of the same year. From 1963 to 1990 seemed Phaolo - Giuse Pham Dinh Tung under house arrest.

In 1990 he was appointed Apostolic Administrator in Hanoi. 1994 Pope John Paul II appointed him after the death of his predecessor, Cardinal Joseph Trinh Van Can Archbishop of Hanoi and took him as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria " Regina Pacis " in Ostia mare in the College of Cardinals to.

His resignation from the office of the Archbishop of Hanoi was granted by John Paul II in 2005.

Work

During the period of prescribed by the communist rulers house arrest from 1963 to 1990, he attended any of its approximately 100 parishes, but could the diocese administration maintained with three priests and many lay priests. He developed in the time of the 27- year-long house arrest own prayer technique and wrote mystical poems and rhymes. Phạm had the sacred texts converted into a traditional Vietnamese poetry form which facilitates the remembering of the content. His catechetical work " Luc Bat" made ​​him known in Vietnam.