The Presence of dominican missionaries in Vietnam from the 16th to the 18th centuries
Prisotnost dominikanskih misijonarjev v Vietnamu med 16. in 18. stoletjem

english

2025

volume 85, issue 2

diocese   Dominican Order   Eastern Tonkin   missionary   Vietnam

Univerza v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

The article focuses on research to clarify the missionary activities of Do-minican missionaries in Vietnam, from the first contact period (1550–1628) to the period of return to Vietnam and the gradual establishment of their positi-on in the Diocese of Eastern Tonkin (1676–1796). During that process, the Do-minican Order also achieved many remarkable results in training indigenousmissionaries and conquering the faith of the Vietnamese, contributing with other missionary forces to introduce and develop Christianity in Vietnamesesociety during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The research on this issue was carried out based on exploiting original materials recorded by Dominican mis-sionaries and other missionary forces and currently archived at the Congrega-tion for the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. In addition, the academic achievements of Vietnamese and international scholars directly or indirectly related to the article’s content also become one of two essential reference sources. The article’s author combines two main research methods of Historical Science (historical and logical) with other research methods such as analysis, synthesis, statistics, comparison, etc. The article will significantlycontribute to the study of the history of the introduction and development of Christianity in Vietnam, as well as the role of the Dominican Order in this pro-cess during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

17.02.2026