Monsignor Luong has also been pastor of Mary, Queen of Vietnam Church, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Dominic Luong was born in Vietnam on Dec. 20, 1940. He attended a French-Vietnamese elementary school and Holy Family Seminary high school, in Vietnam. He later attended a diocesan seminary at Buffalo, New York, and St. Bernard Seminary, Rochester, New York. He pursued postgraduate studies at Canisius College in Buffalo.
Luong was ordained a priest on May 21, 1966, in Buffalo, for the Diocese of Danang, Vietnam, but circumstances in that country prevented his returning there. Eventually he was incardinated in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
He was a hospital chaplain in Buffalo, 1966-1975; associate pastor of St. Louis Church, Buffalo, 1975-1976; and director of the Vietnamese Apostolate, New Orleans, 1976-1983.
Appointed a pastor in 1983, he has also served since 1989 as director of the National Center for the Vietnamese Apostolate.
