The Ugandan-born priest, who immigrated in 2007, has administered the diocese since Bishop Mario Dorsonville died in 2024.

In January, the Vatican announced that the diocese’s longtime leader, Robert McElroy, was moving to Washington, D.C. McElroy ...

Picked to lead the San Diego Diocese, Michael Pham is Pope Leo XIV's first appointment of a bishop in the United States. Pham ...

"I didn't think my role was going to be a priest, but eventually it was like maybe that's actually supposed to be my job on ...

on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California. Regulating private sector investment is the wrong way to address ...

Michael Pham had kept the secret for eight days. But finally Thursday, Auxiliary Bishop Pham could happily describe how he was chosen by Pope Leo XIV as the formal (called ordinary) bishop of San ...

on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California.Pham, 58, is currently an auxiliary bishop in the diocese. He fills the ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday appointed Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of the Diocese of San Diego. He will rise from the position of auxiliary bishop there and succeed Cardinal Robert McElroy as head ...