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I came from Viet Nam as a refugee and have lived in San Diego since 1975. I attended public schools for my
elementary and high school education, and community colleges and graduated from San Diego State University in 1994
in Microbiology. I worked in a genetics research laboratory and transitioned to the financial services industry due
to interest of education. I have been working in the financial services industry since 1997. My late uncle, Father Bien
Do was a diocesan priest for the Diocese of San Diego. I have been very active in church since childhood from being an
altar boy to the youth group to youth counselors. I am a parishioner at Santa Sophia and I served as usher and
Eucharistic minister. I also helped coordinate Bible Timeline Study Class in the fall of 08'. I started with the
Knights of Columbus fall of 2008. I have helped with the local chapter of the Vietnamese Marital Encounter
Program with my parents for the last 18 years. My calling to the priesthood was a gradual process of discernment.
I am now a 1st year seminarian taking prerequisite for the Major Seminary program. I am blessed to be called to this
vocation and with God's grace this will soon come to fruition. I am preparing and look forward to enter a theologate
next year.
