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| | FIRST U.S. CATHOLIC BISHOP OF VIETNAMESE ANCESTRY NAMED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Lying prostrate on a church floor in a sign of humility, immigrant priest Dominic Luong was ordained Wednesday as America's first Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop, a historic recognition of Vietnamese-Americans' rising numbers and influence in the church. |
 | | Pope John Paul II has appointed Monsignor Dominic Dinh Mai Luong, pastor of Mary, Queen of Vietnam Church, New Orleans, and Director of the National Center for the Vietnamese Apostolate, as Titular Bishop of Cebarades and Auxiliary Bishop of Orange, California. |
 | | Luong was a hospital chaplain in Buffalo, 1966-1975, associate pastor of St. Louis church, Buffalo, 1975-1976, and Director of the Vietnamese Apostolate, New Orleans, 1976-1983. |
| www.dioceseofcleveland.org /asianministry/announcement/bishop/luong (333 words) |
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