History of Christianity in Vietnam

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/History_of_Christianity_in_Vietnam

GPTKB entity

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:beganIn	16th century
gptkbp:CatholicPopulation	about 7 million (2020s)
gptkbp:contributedTo	creation of Vietnamese alphabet (quốc ngữ)
gptkbp:denomination	gptkb:Catholicism gptkb:Protestantism
gptkbp:ethnicGroup	gptkb:Montagnards Hmong Kinh
gptkbp:firstMissionariesArrived	gptkb:Jesuits
gptkbp:firstMissionariesArrivedYear	1533
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	History of Christianity in Vietnam
gptkbp:legalStatus	officially recognized
gptkbp:majorGrowthPeriod	French colonial period
gptkbp:notableCatholicDiocese	gptkb:Diocese_of_Phát_Diệm gptkb:Archdiocese_of_Ho_Chi_Minh_City gptkb:Archdiocese_of_Hanoi gptkb:Diocese_of_Đà_Nẵng gptkb:Diocese_of_Bùi_Chu gptkb:Diocese_of_Bắc_Ninh gptkb:Diocese_of_Ban_Mê_Thuột gptkb:Diocese_of_Hà_Tĩnh gptkb:Diocese_of_Hưng_Hóa gptkb:Diocese_of_Hải_Phòng gptkb:Diocese_of_Kontum gptkb:Diocese_of_Lạng_Sơn_and_Cao_Bằng gptkb:Diocese_of_Nha_Trang gptkb:Diocese_of_Qui_Nhơn gptkb:Diocese_of_Thái_Bình gptkb:Diocese_of_Thanh_Hóa gptkb:Diocese_of_Vinh gptkb:Diocese_of_Đà_Lạt gptkb:Diocese_of_Bà_Rịa gptkb:Diocese_of_Cần_Thơ gptkb:Diocese_of_Long_Xuyên gptkb:Diocese_of_Mỹ_Tho gptkb:Diocese_of_Phú_Cường gptkb:Diocese_of_Phan_Thiết gptkb:Diocese_of_Vĩnh_Long gptkb:Diocese_of_Xuân_Lộc
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Vietnam_War gptkb:1954_Geneva_Accords gptkb:1975_Fall_of_Saigon
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:Vietnamese_Martyrs
gptkbp:notableInstitution	gptkb:Notre-Dame_Cathedral_Basilica_of_Saigon gptkb:Phát_Diệm_Cathedral
gptkbp:notableMartyrsCanonizationYear	1988
gptkbp:notableMartyrsCanonizedBy	gptkb:Pope_John_Paul_II
gptkbp:notableMission	gptkb:Alexandre_de_Rhodes
gptkbp:notableProtestantMission	gptkb:Christian_and_Missionary_Alliance
gptkbp:persecutedBy	gptkb:Nguyen_dynasty gptkb:Tay_Son_dynasty Communist government
gptkbp:ProtestantPopulation	about 1 million (2020s)
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Christianity
gptkbp:status	minority religion
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Catholic_missions_in_Asia
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6