Pope Leo XIV Thursday appointed Michael Pham, previously auxiliary bishop ... “accompanied by his older sister and a younger brother, arriving first at a refugee camp in Malaysia, before being ...

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 ...

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 ...