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 ...

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

Michael Pham knows what it feels like to struggle for breath in a cloud of tear gas. Pham was born in Vietnam in 1967 as the war reached a boiling point, and his family repeatedly tried to flee the ...

The pope’s election coincides with an era that is fraught with war and rising global authoritarianism. He takes the helm of a ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse amplified calls Tuesday for a global zero-tolerance policy from the new ...

Pope Leo XIV has made his first American bishop appointment. Bishop Michael Pham has been named Bishop of the San Diego Diocese. The Diocese includes Imperial County. Bishop Pham has been an auxiliary ...

With Pope Leo XIV selected as the first American pontiff, young college students share their thoughts on how the Pope should ...

Pope Leo XIV presided over his inaugural mass Sunday, May 18, with world leaders and a crowd of 200,000 people gathered in St ...

Pope Leo XIV is in his first full day as the holy father with many more to come. “We didn’t expect an American to be Pope,” ...

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