SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — On Thursday, Pope Leo XIV appointed Auxiliary Bishop Michael Pham as the new bishop of San Diego, making him the first Vietnamese-American bishop in the United States. The ...

Michael Pham had kept the secret for eight days. But finally Thursday, Auxiliary Bishop Pham could happily describe how he was chosen by Pope Leo XIV as the formal (called ordinary) bishop of San ...

Auxillary Bishop Michael Pham became the first Asian appointed bishop in the diocese of San Diego, but his journey began decades ago in Vietnam. At the young age of 13 years old, Michael Pham’s faith ...

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 currently an ...

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

Bishop Michael Pham, appointed by Pope Leo as the first U.S. bishop under his papacy, has emerged as a new voice of the Catholic Church. Through his own story of survival as a child refugee from ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX 5/KUSI) — One of the first actions from ...

DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — In a traditional Catholic installation ceremony held in Del Mar, Bishop Michael Pham was officially installed as the leader of the Catholic Diocese of San Diego. More than 200 ...

SAN DIEGO — Bishop Michael Pham is set to become the seventh Bishop of San Diego. On Wednesday, there was a vespers service at St. Joseph Cathedral, and he will officially assume his role on Thursday.

Earlier this month, San Diego Catholic Bishop-Designate Michael Pham and Auxiliary Bishops Ramón Bejarano and Felipe Pulido reflected on the past and accurately predicted the future. “. . . it has ...

(FOX 5/KUSI) — One of the first actions from the first American pope, Leo XIV, was to promote another history-making person to lead the San Diego Diocese’s Catholics. On Thursday, a ceremonial mass at ...