Nguyễn Văn Thiện

In this Vietnamese name, the family name is Nguyễn. According to Vietnamese custom, this person should properly be referred to by the given name Thiện.

Antoine Nguyễn Văn Thiện
Bishop
File:Nguyen Van Thien.jpg
Church	Catholic
See	Vĩnh Long
In office	24 November 1960 – 12 July 1968
Predecessor	None
Successor	Nguyễn Văn Mầu
Orders
Ordination	21 February 1932
Consecration	22 January 1961 by Ngô Đình Thục
Personal details
Born	(1906-03-13)13 March 1906 Saigon, French Indochina
Died	Nice, France
Previous post	Priest

Antoine Nguyễn Văn Thiện (13 March 1906 – 13 May 2012) was a Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop and the oldest of the Catholic Church at 106 years of age. He was also one of the last living bishops to have served in South Vietnam.

Born in Cái Cồn, Thiện was ordained a priest on 20 February 1932. He was appointed bishop of Vĩnh Long in November 1960, and received episcopal consecration in January 1961. He resigned that position in 1968 and was appointed titular bishop of Hispellum the same month. He became the oldest living Roman Catholic bishop on 6 October 2005, with the death of Bishop Ettore Cunial at age 99.

Thiện died in Nice, France, on 13 May 2012, aged 106. France's Géry Leuliet then became the oldest living Catholic bishop.

Sources

• "Bishop saved from rebels", Spokane Daily Chronicle, 9 November 1961

Episcopal lineage
Consecrated by:	Ngo Dinh Thuc