Pham Minh Man

Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn (Vietnamese: Gioan Baotixia Phạm Minh Mẫn) (born 5 March[1] 1934) is a cardinal priest and archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City in the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Cà Mau, Vietnam, Man studied in Cần Thơ and Saigon, and was ordained a priest on 25 May 1965, serving the diocese of Cần Thơ.

After studying in the United States, he taught in Vietnam for a number of years. In 1993, he was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Mỹ Tho and promoted to Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City in 1998. He officiated at a mass in La Vang in 1998 for the 200th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary, the largest Vietnamese Catholic event up to that time.[2] Man was elevated to cardinal in the consistory of 21 October 2003 by Pope John Paul II, and was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

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