Thaddeus Lê Hữu Từ

The Most Reverend Thaddeus Anselm Lê Hữu Từ O.Cist.
Apostolic Vicar of Phát Diệm

See	Phát-diệm
Appointed	14 June 1945
Installed	October 1945
Term ended	January 1959
Predecessor	Jean Maria Phan Đình Phùng
Successor	Paul Bùi Chu Tạo
Other post(s)	Titular Bishop of Daphnusia (1945–1967) Apostolic Administrator of Bùi Chu (1948–1950)
Orders
Ordination	22 December 1928
Consecration	29 October 1945
Personal details
Born	(1896-10-28)28 October 1896 Di Loan, Vĩnh Linh, Quảng Trị, French Indochina
Died	24 April 1967(1967-04-24) (aged 70) Gò Vấp, Saigon, South Vietnam
Previous post(s)	Abbot of Châu Sơn (1936–1945)
Motto	"Vox clamantis in deserto"

Styles of Thaddeus Anselm Lê Hữu Từ

Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

Ordination history of
Thaddeus Lê Hữu Từ

History
Priestly ordination
Date	22 December 1928
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Jean-Baptiste Nguyễn Bá Tòng
Co-consecrators	Dominique Hồ Ngọc Cẩn
Date	29 October 1945
Place	Phát Diệm Cathedral

Thaddeus Lê Hữu Từ (28 October 1896 – 24 April 1967) was a Vietnamese Catholic prelate who served as the Apostolic Vicar of Phát Diệm from 1945 to 1959.^[1] He was also a supreme advisor to the early government of the Democratic Republic Vietnam. As a leading Vietnamese Catholic nationalist figure during the First Indochina War, Từ was an ardent opponent of both French colonialism and Vietnamese communism.^[2]

References

^ "Chân dung tiểu sử Đức Cha Anselmô Tađêô Lê Hữu Từ". Diocese of Phát Diệm. 24 April 2020.
^ Goscha, Christopher E. (2011). "Lê Hữu Từ". Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War (1945–1954): An International and Interdisciplinary Approach. University of Hawaiʻi Press. pp. 262–263. ISBN 9780824836047.

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International	FAST ISNI VIAF
National	United States

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