Khuê was born in Tràng Duệ,
Bình Lục,
Hà Nam and
ordained to the
priesthood on 1 April 1932. On 18 April 1950, he was appointed
Apostolic Vicar of
Hanoi and
Titular Bishop of
Synaus by
Pope Pius XII. Khuê received his
episcopal consecration on the following 15 August from Bishop
Thaddeus Lê Hữu Từ,
OCist, with Bishops
Francisco Gomez de Santiago,
OP, and
Peter Phạm Ngọc Chi serving as
co-consecrators, in the
Cathedral of Hanoi. He was later raised to the rank of a
Metropolitan Archbishop upon his
vicariate's elevation to a
metropolitan see on 24 November 1960. The archbishop was reserved as a
cardinal in pectore by
Pope Paul VI when the
consistory was announced on April 28, 1976, and was published and created
Cardinal Priest of
S. Francesco di Paola ai Monti at the consistory on 24 May of that same year. Khue attended the consistory in the purple
clerical dress of a bishop, because he did not have time to get red ones. He was the first cardinal to hail from
Vietnam, and was also the eldest of the
cardinal electors who participated in the
conclaves of
August and
October 1978, which selected
Popes John Paul I and
John Paul II respectively. Cardinal Khuê died in
Hanoi, at the age of 79; he had been the ecclesiastical leader of Hanoi for twenty-eight years. He is buried in
St. Joseph's Cathedral, Hanoi. ==References==