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Pope Leo XIV Appoints Michael Pham as San Diego’s First Vietnamese American Bishop

Pham, a former refugee and current auxiliary bishop, will lead a diocese of 1.3 million Catholics starting July 17, marking a milestone in U.S. Catholic Church diversity.