{{Short description|Canadian Catholic prelate (born 1966)}} {{for|the basketball player|Vincent Nguyen (basketball)}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific-prefix = The Most Reverend | name = Vincent Nguyen | honorific-suffix = | title = Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto | image = Bishop Vincent Nguyen.JPG | image_size = 250px | native_name = '''Vinh Sơn Nguyễn Mạnh Hiếu''' | caption = Nguyen in 2013, speaking at the opening of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Catholic School in Scarborough, Ontario. | province = | archdiocese = Toronto | see = Ammaedara<ref>{{cite web|url= http://press.catholica.va/news_services/bulletin/news/24613.php?index=24613&po_date=06.11.2009&lang=en|title= NOMINA DI AUSILIARI DI TORONTO (CANADA)|publisher= Holy See Press Office|access-date=2012-04-30}}</ref> | appointed = November 6, 2009 | enthroned = January 13, 2010 | ended = | predecessor = | successor = | ordination = May 9, 1998 | ordained_by = | consecration = January 13, 2010 | consecrated_by = Thomas Collins | cardinal = | rank = | other_post = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|05|8|mf=y}} | birth_place = Sài Gòn, Republic of Việt Nam | death_date = | death_place = | buried = | nationality = | religion = Catholic | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | occupation = | profession = | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|University of Toronto (1991), (1998)|St. Augustine's Seminary (1998)|Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (2008)}} | signature = | motto = {{unbulleted list|''Ego vobiscum sum''|(I am with you)|(Thầy ở cùng các con)}} | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Vincent Nguyen.svg }}{{Infobox bishop styles | name= Vincent Nguyễn Mạnh Hiếu |image= Coat of arms of Vincent Nguyen.svg |image_size=200px | dipstyle=The Most Reverend | offstyle=Your Excellency | relstyle=Bishop }} '''Vincent Hieu Manh Nguyen''' (born May 8, 1966) is a Canadian Catholic prelate who serves as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Toronto. On November 6, 2009 Nguyen was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as one of two new Auxiliary Bishops for the Archdiocese of Toronto along with Bishop William McGrattan.<ref name="Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cccb.ca/site/content/view/2733/1214/lang,eng/ |title=Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops |access-date=2009-11-07 |archive-date=2010-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110062859/http://www.cccb.ca/site/content/view/2733/1214/lang,eng |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Nguyễn Mạnh Hiếu was born in South Vietnam and moved to Canada in 1984, just nine years after the Fall of Saigon, which ended the Vietnam War. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master of Divinity from St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto. He was ordained a priest on 9 May 1998. He then did further studies in Rome, where he received a licentiate in canon law from the Angelicum. From September 2009 to his consecration as bishop, he served as Chancellor and Moderator of the Curia of the Archdiocese of Toronto.<ref name="Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops"/>
Nguyen is Canada's first Bishop of Asian descent. He is currently the third youngest Bishop in Canada.
== See also == {{Portal|Biography|Catholicism|Canada}} * Archdiocese of Toronto
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