Jean-Baptiste Bùi Tuần

Jean Baptiste Bùi Tuần (24 June 1928 – 27 July 2024) was a Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop who served as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Long Xuyên from 1997 to 2003.

Biography Jean Baptiste Bùi Tuần was born on 24 June 1928 in the commune of Cam Lai, now Đông Cơ, Tiền Hải District, Thai Binh Province, Vietnam, to poor but devout peasant parents.

Bishop Jean-Baptiste Bùi Tuần died in Long Xuyên, Vietnam on 27 July 2024, at the age of 96.

Education and Priesthood

In 1954, following the division of Vietnam, he fled to Hong Kong, where he was ordained a priest on 2 September 1955. He returned to southern Vietnam and was sent to Rome for further studies. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in philosophy, he was sent to Switzerland, where he earned a doctorate in philosophy, and completed his studies in Germany. Upon returning to his homeland, he was appointed director of the major seminary of Long Xuyên and a teacher at the seminary in Rạch Giá. In the following years, he dedicated his pastoral service to caring for refugees amidst the backdrop of the civil war.

Episcopal ministry On 15 April 1975, Pope Paul VI appointed him as the coadjutor bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Long Xuyên. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 April of the same year by Bishop Michael Nguyễn Khắc Ngữ, almost in secret while the Vietnam People's Army captured Saigon and Vietnam was reunified under the Communist government of Hanoi. He succeeded to the same position on 30 December 1997, and remained in office for almost six years until his retirement due to age limits on 2 October 2003. He is also known in his homeland for his activity as a writer, having published several texts and collections of poems, as well as his main work Thao thức (translatable as "Restlessness"), a series of five volumes published in 2007.

Episcopal lineage and apostolic succession The episcopal lineage is: Patriarch Eliya XII Denha Patriarch Yohannan VIII Hormizd Bishop Yohannan Gabriel Archbishop Augustine Hindi Patriarch Joseph VI Audo Patriarch Eliya XIV Abulyonan Patriarch Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas Bishop François David Archbishop Antonin-Fernand Drapier, O.P. Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục Bishop Michel Nguyễn Khắc Ngư Bishop Jean Baptiste Bùi Tuần

The apostolic succession is: Bishop Joseph Trần Xuân Tiếu (1999) Archbishop Joseph Ngô Quang Kiệt (1999)