Joseph Do Quang Khang

Joseph Đỗ Quang Khang (born 7 November 1965) is a Vietnamese Catholic prelate serving as the fourth Bishop of Bắc Ninh since 2023. He previously served as coadjutor bishop of Bắc Ninh from 2021 to 2023 and Secretary-General of the Catholic Education Committee under the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam.

Biography Early life and education 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. He was baptized shortly after in the same month at Từ Đức Church in Thủ Đức. He was also later confirmed as an eight-year-old. 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. After graduating, he joined the teaching faculty at Hưng Bình School in Thủ Đức a year later. In 1989, he became a volunteer at a farm in Hóc Môn for two years. He then entered Saint Joseph Major Seminary of Sài Gòn in October 1993 and graduated in June 1999. Joseph Bùi Công Trác in 2022; and Peter Kiều Công Tùng in 2023. Khang's first assignment after ordination was at Chợ Đũi Church of Sài Gòn deanery. After two years there, Khang was sent to the Catholic University of Toulouse, earning a master of arts in Biblical theology in 2006,

Upon returning to Vietnam, he became a resident priest of Saint Joseph Major Seminary of Sài Gòn and taught on the topics of the Synoptic Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and Biblical Greek. This appointment was one of the first in a period of three years and six months since the last episcopal appointment in 2018 by the Pope. It also marked the longest "waiting period" for an appointment since the period from 1982 to 1988. The appointment also came as a surprise to many because there were currently also four vacant sees in the ecclesiastical province of Hà Nội at the time.

Bishop of Bắc Ninh On 17 June 2023, Francis accepted the resignation of Cosma Hoàng Vãn Ðat . Khang subsequently became the next Bishop of Bắc Ninh as coadjutor bishop.