Dominic Mai Thanh Lương

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Styles of Dominic Mai Thanh Lương
Reference style	His Excellency The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

Dominic Mai Thanh Lương (20 December 1940 – 6 December 2017) was a Vietnamese-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Orange from 2003-15.

Mai Thanh Lương was born in Trực Ninh of the province and near the city of Nam Định on 20 December 1940, the youngest of nine children.^[1] His father worked as a real estate notary.^[1] He received his early education at a French Vietnamese elementary school, and afterwards attended Holy Family Seminary High School.^[2]

In 1954, he left home against his father's wishes to enter a seminary in Saigon.^[3]

In 1956, he was sent by the Bishop of Da Nang to continue his studies in the United States, where he enrolled at a diocesan seminary in Buffalo, New York, two years later.^[3] He completed his philosophical and theological studies at St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, New York.^[2]

Luong was ordained to the priesthood on 21 May 1966.^[4] Although ordained for the Diocese of Da Nang, the increasing violence of the Vietnam War prevented him from returning to his native country.^[2]

He pursued postgraduate studies at Canisius College in Buffalo, where he earned a Master of Science degree in biology and psychology in 1967.^[1] He then served as a chaplain at a hospital in Buffalo until 1975, when he became a curate at St. Louis Church, also in Buffalo.^[2]

In 1976, Luong was incardinated in the Archdiocese of New Orleans at the invitation of Archbishop Philip Hannan, who assigned him to the spiritual care of Vietnamese refugees in southern Louisiana.^[4]

He became an American citizen the following year.^[1] He served as director of the Vietnamese Apostolate from 1976–83, and was named pastor of Mary Queen of Vietnam Church in New Orleans in 1983.^[2]

In addition to his pastoral duties, he became rector of the Vietnamese Martyrs Chapel in 1986 and director of the National Center for the Vietnamese Apostolate in 1989.^[2] He was made a monsignor in 1986, and served as a member of the archdiocesan priests' council (1987–92) and dean of New Orleans East (2002–03).^[2]

On 25 April 2003, Luong was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Orange, California, and titular bishop of Cebarades by Pope John Paul II.^[4] He received his episcopal consecration on 11 June from Bishop Tod David Brown, with Archbishop Alfred Clifton Hughes and Bishop Jaime Soto serving as co-consecrators.^[4] He selected as his episcopal motto: "You Are Strangers And Aliens No Longer" (Ephesians 2:19).^[5]

Luong has been an outspoken proponent for the rights of Catholics in Vietnam.^[6] He was the first native-born Vietnamese Roman Catholic Bishop in the United States.^[7]

The Vatican announced that his resignation was accepted on 20 December 2015, his 75th birthday.^[8]

Dominic died on 6 December 2017, aged 77 at Saint Joseph Hospital in Orange County, California.^[where?][9]

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