Joseph Đỗ Quang Khang
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Joseph Đỗ Quang Khang | |
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| Bishop of Bắc Ninh | |
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Native name | Giuse Đỗ Quang Khang |
| Province | Hà Nội |
| See | Bắc Ninh |
| Appointed | 30 October 2021 (as Coadjutor) |
| Installed | 17 June 2023 |
| Predecessor | Cosma Hoàng Vãn Ðat SJ |
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| Ordination | 30 June 1999 by Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn |
| Consecration | 14 December 2021 by Cosma Hoàng Vãn Ðat, Joseph Nguyễn Năng, and Joseph Vũ Văn Thiên |
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| Born | 7 November 1965 |
| Nationality | Vietnamese |
| Education | Ho Chi Minh City College of Education Saint Joseph Major Seminary of Sài Gòn Catholic University of Toulouse Pontifical Biblical Institute |
| Motto | Occurrere – Auscultare – Discernere (Encounter – Listen – Discern) (Gặp gỡ – Lắng nghe – Phân định) |
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Joseph Đỗ Quang Khang (Vietnamese: Giuse Đỗ Quang Khang) is a Vietnamese prelate and currently serves as Bishop of Bắc Ninh since 2023. On 30 October 2021, Pope Francis appointed Khang as coadjutor bishop of Bắc Ninh while serving as vice-rector and academic dean of Saint Joseph Major Seminary of Sài Gòn.[1] He previously served as the Secretary-General of the Catholic Education Committee under the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam.
Đỗ Quang Khang was born on 7 November 1965 in Thủ Đức, Gia Định, Republic of Việt Nam to Giuse Đỗ Văn Cao and Maria Nguyễn Thị Tuyết.[1] His parents are from Bắc Giang, belonging to the Diocese of Bắc Ninh, but moved to Saigon in 1954.[2] He is the eighth of ten siblings and attended Nguyễn Hữu Huân High School in Thủ Đức from 1981 to 1983. He later attended Ho Chi Minh City College of Education from 1984 to 1987. In 1988, he joined the teaching faculty of Hưng Bình School in Thủ Đức, and from 1989 to 1991, he was a youth volunteer at a farm in Hóc Môn.[3]
Priesthood
Khang was ordained a priest on 30 June 1999 by Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn along with three future bishops at the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon.[a] After that, Khang was sent to France and Rome, earning a Master of Arts in Biblical Theology and a Bachelor's Degree in Biblical Studies, respectively.[1]
