Diocese of Kontum

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Diocese of Kontum (Latin: Dioecesis Kontumensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese of Vietnam. The bishop since 2003 is Michel Hoang Ðúc Oanh. More than 10 % of the million persons living in its area are Roman Catholics. Many of them belong to ethnic minorities.

The diocese covers an area of 25,728 km² of central Vietnam. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Huê. It was erected as a Vicariate Apostolic on January 18, 1932. On November 24, 1960, it was elevated to a diocese. In 1967, some of the territory was split off to form the new diocese of Ban Mê Thuôt.

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Roman Catholic Dioceses in Vietnam under Council of Bishops of Vietnam
Archdiocese of Hanoi: Bắc Ninh | Bùi Chu | Hải Phòng | Hưng Hóa | Lạng Sơn and Cao Bang | Phát Diệm | Thái Bình | Thanh Hóa | Vinh Archdiocese of Hue: Ban Mê Thuột | Đà Nẵng | Kontum | Nha Trang | Quy Nhơn Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh city: Bà Rịa | Cần Thơ | Đà Lạt | Long Xuyên | Mỹ Tho | Phan Thiết | Phú Cường | Vĩnh Long | Xuân Lộc