Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City The Archdiocese (Metropolitan) of Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon; , , ) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the South of Vietnam. It is the biggest by population in the country. The renaming former Archdiocese of Saigon to Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh city was declared November 23, 1976. It covers an area of 2,390 km². The suffragan dioceses are: Immaculate Conception Cathedral Basilica ("Vương cung thánh đường Chính tòa Đức Mẹ Vô nhiễm Nguyên tội - Nhà thờ Đức Bà Sài Gòn") in Ho Chi Minh City has been
Ho Chi Minh Thought Ho Chi Minh Thought Ho Chi Minh Thought (; literally "Thoughts of Ho Chi Minh") is the political philosophy of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Since 1991, the contents of Ho Chi Minh's thought were formed and developed in association with the periods of Ho Chi Minh's activities in the revolutionary movement of Vietnam and internationally as integral to the curriculum of fundamental instruction for civil servants in Vietnam. At the beginning and the middle of the 20th century, Ho Chi Minh thought was the crystallization of Vietnamese culture, French revolutionary ideas, liberal ideas, Marxist–Leninist communist ideals and Ho Chi