Michael Pham, 58, is currently an auxiliary bishop in the diocese; he was ordained a priest in the San Diego diocese in 1999.

Picked to lead the San Diego Diocese, Michael Pham is Pope Leo XIV's first appointment of a bishop in the United States. Pham ...

(RNS) — In his first United States episcopal appointment, Pope Leo XIV named Michael Pham bishop of San Diego on Thursday ...

In January, the Vatican announced that the diocese’s longtime leader, Robert McElroy, was moving to Washington, D.C. McElroy ...

The Diocese of San Diego is comprised of 8,852 square miles and has a total population of 3,454,921 -- 1,381,968 of which ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed a Vietnamese American bishop in the United States, selecting Auxiliary Bishop Michael Pham to lead ...

Pope Leo XIV appoints Bishop Michael Pham as the new bishop of San Diego and names Sister Tiziana Merletti as No. 2 in the ...

Soon after the first American took over as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV made history in San Diego. For his ...

Bishop-elect Michael Pham was appointed the San Diego Diocese’s temporary administrator after Cardinal Robert McElroy was ...