Asked if McElroy had influenced the pope to pick him, Pham said ... He began working on a master’s, but didn’t finish before entering St. Francis Seminary at the University of San Diego. He finished ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Pope Leo XIV appointed Michael ... "He was made a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2024 and headed the Dicastery for Bishops, a position in the Vatican that advises the Pope on ...

(Photo by Ken Stone/Times of San Diego) Bishop-elect Michael Pham at ... million-Catholic diocese and “following the vision of Pope Francis,” including McElroy’s focus on synodality.

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

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, signaling he is continuing one of Pope Francis’ most controversial ...

In 2020, he completed a licentiate in sacred theology. On June 6, 2023, Pope Francis named then-Father Pham as a San Diego auxiliary. Then-Father Felipe Pulido, vicar for clergy and director of ...

When I heard Robert Francis Prevost was elected the new pope and that he was raised in my hometown of Chicago, I cheered ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday appointed ... Pham began his seminary studies in the 1990s at St. Francis Seminary at the University of San Diego and completed his training at St. Patrick’s Seminary ...

Holy father, I dare tell you that all of Mexico congratulates you and is with you,” Aguiar Retes says he told Pope XIV.

While geopolitics are in disarray due to the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, Pope Francis was a stabilizing factor, even bringing peace to refugees in San Diego escaping those conflicts ...

SAN DIEGO — Pope Leo XIV ... He fills the vacancy created when Pope Francis named Cardinal Robert McElroy archbishop of Washington D.C. earlier this year. Pham, who was born in Da Nang, Vietnam ...