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

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as ... roles in the Vatican.Sister Tiziana Merletti, the ...

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 ...

In his first appointment of a top-level official of the Roman Curia, Pope Leo XIV named Sister Tiziana Merletti, a canon ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV , history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he ...

Pham, 58, was born in Da Nang, Vietnam and fled as a refugee in 1980, "accompanied by his older sister and a younger ... San Diego Diocese in 1999. Upon Leo XIV being named as Pope, Pham ...