In his first United States episcopal appointment, Pope Leo XIV named Michael Pham bishop of San Diego on Thursday (May 22).

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

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV, history's first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California.

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