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

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 ...

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

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

Pope Francis has challenged America over deportations, arguing that Christian mercy should be given to both citizens and non-citizens alike.

Pope Leo XIV, an American and a global citizen, can be a strong advocate for the First Amendment's protection of freedom of ...

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

Pope Leo XIV is aware how protest, free speech and collaboration will shape a vision for a lively church that makes a ...

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

WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Michael M. Pham of San Diego to head the diocese.

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 ...