A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphê Bỉnh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism

A Vietnamese Moses is the story of Philiphê Bỉnh, a Vietnamese Catholic priest who in 1796 traveled from Tonkin to the Portuguese court in Lisbon to persuade its ruler to appoint a bishop for his community of ex-Jesuits. Based on Bỉnh’s surviving writings from his thirty-seven-year exile in Portugal...

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Main Author:	E. Dutton, George (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	University of California Press 2016
Subjects:	church history philiphê bỉnh catholics catholic church vietnam Apostolic vicariate Europe Lisbon Macau Padroado Portugal Society of Jesus Tonkin thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
Online Access:	Open access – download the full text (archived at NCDS Library)
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