Chairman of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs (GCRA) Vũ Chiến Thắng led a delegation on March 16 to pay his homage to Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh city Archdiocese Paul Bùi Văn Đọc, who passed away on March 7 (Vietnam time).
Writing in the funeral book, GCRA Chairman Chairman Vũ Chiến Thắng expressed his deep condolences to all dignitaries and followers of the Vietnam Catholic Church, Ho Chi Minh city Archdiocese and his family, and stressed that Archbishop Bùi Văn Đọc was a prestigious Catholic dignitary who has made a great contribution to the development of the Catholic Church as well as to national unity and development.
Chairman Vũ Chiến Thắng writes on funeral book
Archbishop Paul Bùi Văn Đọc, Former President of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of Vietnam, was born in 1944 in the city of Da Lat in Vietnam’s Central Highlands region. The Archbishop had suffered a sudden stroke and passed away in the hospital in Rome at at 4.15 am on March 7 (Vietnam time) at the age of 74.
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