Formation Support for Vietnam (FSVN) is a non-profit organization incorporated in the State of Texas since 2010. We assist the Church in Vietnam in the formation and education of clergy, religious, and seminarians for ministry. We help these students with their academic and spiritual formation by seeking scholarships from U.S. colleges and universities, seeking arrangements of room and board, and providing them with academic, cross-cultural, spiritual, and legal support.
The need for formation and education of religious and priests in Vietnam arises from its social context. After the Vietnam War, all Catholic education have been suppressed and Catholic schools and seminaries were shut down. Religious and priests in Vietnam have not had access to professional training. The Vietnamese political situation has now eased up somewhat. The number of religious and clergy has been flourishing, with a significant number of new vocations among priests and religious. There are 181 men and women religious congregations in 26 dioceses. Each of them currently has on average about 100 postulants. Men and women of religious carry out different ministries, including educating young Christians and non-Christians, taking care of HIV infected individuals, lepers, and orphans, and advancing the flourishing of women.
Due to the lack of finance, men and women religious and clergy lack training and education in leadership and professional skills. Thus, we hope to provide support resources for religious and priests in the Catholic Church of Vietnam. Upon completion of their studies, these religious and priests will return to Vietnam and make contributions to the mission and ministry of the Catholic Church in Vietnam and the Vietnamese society.
Since 2006, with the generous support of Catholic colleges and universities, men and women religious orders as well as dioceses in the United States, we have been bringing nearly 200 Vietnamese religious, seminarians, and priests from all 26 archdioceses and dioceses of Vietnam studying in the United States. They are studying different levels from the English as Second Language program to Bachelors, Masters and doctoral degrees in various disciplines: education, theology, philosophy, psychology, and healthcare, just name a few. Some of them have returned to Vietnam and have been involved in teaching, formation, and social services in convents, clinics, social service centers, and seminaries.
“Formation Support for Vietnam” is an organization that seeks to provide resources and support for men and women religious, seminarians and priests from Vietnam to study in the U.S. in a broad range of academic disciplines and programs in order to contribute to the development of the Church and culture in Vietnam. Its goals include support for placement in academic programs, reflection on the students’ cross-cultural experiences of the churches and cultures of Vietnam and U.S., and the development of increased pastoral collaboration within the church in Vietnam. The goal would be to enable these men and women to be more aware of their global citizenship, and identity as ‘bridges’ between cultures, nations, ecclesial communities and the universal church.
Fr. Mark Lewis, SJ. Ph. D., Co-chair
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy.
Bishop Michael Barber, SJ, S.T.L.
Bishop of Oakland Diocese. Oakland, CA.
Francesco Cesareo, Ph.D.
President, Assumption University. Worcester, MA
Fr. Hung Viet Nguyen, ICM, Co-chair
Superior of Incarnatio-Consecratio-Missio Congregation. Baton Rouge, LA.
Fr. Peter Samuel Kucer, MSA, S.T.D.
President and Rector, Holy Apostles College and Seminary. Cromwell, CT.
Quyen Di Chuc Bui, Ph.D.
California State University Long Beach. Long Beach, CA.
Liem T. Le
Executive Director
Sr. Lien Chu
Secretary / Spokesperson
Diocese of Bà Rịa
Diocese of Bắc Ninh
Diocese of Ban Mê Thuột
Diocese of Bùi Chu
Diocese of Cái Nhum
Diocese of Cần Thơ
Diocese of China-Changzhi
Diocese of China-Wenzhou
Diocese of China-Yulim
Diocese of China-Zhoucun
Diocese of Đà Lạt
Diocese of Đà Nẵng
Diocese of Gò Vấp
Diocese of Hà Nội
Diocese of Hà Tĩnh
Diocese of Hải Phòng
Diocese of Huế
Diocese of Hưng Hóa
Diocese of Kon Tum
Diocese of Long Xuyên
Diocese of Mỹ Tho
Diocese of Nha Trang
Diocese of Phan Thiết
Diocese of Phát Diệm
Diocese of Phú Cường
Diocese of Quy Nhơn
Diocese of Sài Gòn
Diocese of Thái Bình
Diocese of Thanh Hóa
Diocese of Vinh
Diocese of Vĩnh Long
Diocese of Wenzhou
Diocese of Xuân Lộc
Abandoning her religious order
Ánh Vảy Kontum
Bác Ái Vinh
Carmelite Discald in San Diego
China-Congregation of School Sisters of Our Lady from Kalocsa
Chúa Cứu Thế
Chúa Giêsu Hài Đồng
Chúa Quan Phòng Cần Thơ
Con Đức Mẹ Đi Viếng Bùi Chu
Con Đức Mẹ Nam Vang/Phú Cường
Đa Minh Bà Rịa
Đa Minh Bắc Ninh
Đa Minh Bùi Chu
Đa Minh Gò Vấp
Đa Minh Mân Côi Montels
Đa Minh Phú Cường
Đa Minh Rôsa Lima
Đa Minh Thái Bình
Đa Minh Thánh Tâm
Đaminh Bùi Chu
Đức Mẹ Hiệp Nhất Bắc Ninh
Hội Dòng Nữ Vương Hoà Bình Ban Mê Thuật
ICM
Joliet
Kín Nha Trang
Lời Chúa - Vinh
Mân Côi Bùi Chu
Mến Thánh Giá Cái Mơn
Mến Thánh Giá Cái Nhum
Mến Thánh Giá Cần Thơ
Mến Thánh Giá Đà Lạt
Mến Thánh Giá Hà Nội
Mến Thánh Giá Huế
Mến Thánh Giá Hưng Hoá
Mến Thánh Giá Khiết Tâm
Mến Thánh Giá Kiên Lao
Mến Thánh Giá Kiên Lao Bùi Chu
Mến Thánh Giá Nha Trang
Mến Thánh Giá Phan Thiết
Mến Thánh Giá Phát Diệm
Mến Thánh Giá Quy Nhơn
Mến Thánh Giá Tân An
Mến Thánh Giá Thanh Hóa
Mến Thánh Giá Thủ Đức
Mến Thánh Giá Vinh
Missionaries of Sacred Heart of Jesus-China
Nam Tận Hiến Nhập Thể Truyền Giáo
Nữ Tì Chúa Giêsu Linh Mục
Tận Hiến Nhập Thể Truyền Giáo
Tận Hiến Truyền Giáo
Thánh Gia
Thừa Sai Bác Ái Vinh
Thừa Sai Trinh Vương Sài Gòn
Trinh Vương Bùi Chu
Trinh Vương Sài Gòn
Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Diocese of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Diocese of Philadelphia, Pensylvania, USA.
Diocese of Boston,Massachuset, USA.
Diocese of Albany, New York, USA.
Diocese of Manchester, New Hamser, USA.
Diocese of Portland, Maine, USA
Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, USA.
Diocese of Orlando, Florida, USA.