Father Dinh Anh Nhue Nguyen, OFM Conv, has been reappointed by Pope Leo XIV as Secretary General of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) for a second five-year term, beginning on 1 May 2026.
A Conventual Franciscan friar of Vietnamese nationality, he was appointed by Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, then Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and began his service with the Pontifical Mission Societies on 1 May 2021, for a first five-year term. During this term, he also served as Director of CIAM – the International Center for Missionary Animation at the Vatican (2021–2024) and as Director of the Fides News Agency (2021–2023).
Fr. Dinh Anh Nhue Nguyen is born in 1970 in Qui Nhon (Vietnam), priest of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, Fr. Dinh Anh Nhue Nguyen is a member of the religious province of Warsaw (Poland).
He holds a Master of Science in Engineering from the Tula State Technical University (1994, Russia).
After entering the Order of Friars Minor Conventual for formation, he obtained a Baccalaureate in Theology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure in Urbe (Seraphicum) in 2001, year in which he made his solemn profession in the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, and a Licentiate in Biblical Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 2003, the year in which he was ordained a priest, in Rome.
In 2006, he obtained a Doctorate in Biblical Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
He is Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Divinity, Catholic Theological College (Melbourne, Australia), where he taught from 2006 to 2011.
He was President-Dean of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure, from 2016 to 2021 and vice-dean of the same Faculty from 2013 to 2016.
He is the founding Director of Franciscan Institute for Asian Theological Studies - FIATS, established in 2015 at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St Bonaventure.
Since 2016, he has been a Full Professor of Exegesis and Biblical Theology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure and a Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He has also taught at the “Redemptoris Missio” Higher Institute of Catechesis and Missionary Spirituality of the Pontifical Urbaniana University.
Alongside his academic work, he is engaged in pastoral and missionary activities throughout the world, preaching spiritual retreats and organizing biblical-missionary formation sessions in various languages.
He is a member of the Scientific Council of AVEPRO (Holy See Agency for the Evaluation and Promotion of Quality in Ecclesiastical Faculties and Universities), to which he was appointed by Pope Francis in 2018. He was also appointed by Pope Francis as a member of the Commission of New Martyrs – Witnesses to the Faith, established on 5 July 2023 at the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.
He is the author of numerous books and scientific articles and is fluent in seven languages.