Bishop Michael Pham, the first American bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV, was installed on Thursday as the leader of the San ...

We feel blessed of this day. Everyone should pray for Bishop and pray for our family.” Almost two months after becoming Pope Leo XIV’s first choice for a new American bishop. Pham, 58, smiled ...

Michael Pham, a Vietnamese American and a refugee himself, has been installed as the first Vietnamese American bishop to lead a diocese in the United States, overseeing nearly 1.4 million Catholics in ...

Bishop Pham was appointed as the new bishop of San Diego May 22, in one of Pope Leo XIV's first appointments since the May 18 Mass inaugurating his Petrine ministry. The nearly 9,000-square-mile ...

Michael Pham, 58, right, was installed as bishop by Cardinal Christophe Pierre during services at St. Therese of Carmel Church in Carmel Valley.

Bishop Michael Pham who will take over as leader of the Catholic Diocese of San Diego, now has his photograph displayed alongside that of Pope Leo the XIV in the Pastoral Center lobby.

Michael Pham knows what it feels like to struggle for breath in a cloud of tear gas. Pham was born in Vietnam in 1967 as the war reached a boiling point, and his family repeatedly tried to flee ...

San Diego Bishop-Designate Michael Pham, the first U.S. Catholic bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV and himself a refugee, led a delegation of faith leaders Friday to accompany immigrants attending ...

Bishop-elect Michael Pham of San Diego, the first Vietnamese American head of a US diocese, hopes the Catholic Church can recognize its “multicultural” nature so that different races and ...

Pham, who was born in Da Nang, Vietnam, was ordained a priest in the San Diego diocese in 1999 and was made a bishop in 2023. He was in charge of programming for the dioceses’ ethnic groups and ...

SAN DIEGO — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California. Pham, 58, is ...