Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer

The congregation is better known by its former name, the Congregation of the Mother Coredemptrix (Vietnamese: Dòng Đức Mẹ Đồng Công Cứu Chuộc or simply Dòng Đồng Công; Latin: Congregatio Matris Coredemptricis, CMC), which uses an unofficial title applied to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Dominic Maria Trần Đình Thủ, an instructor at the Quần Phương seminary, was given permission to establish the Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix in Liên Thủy hamlet, Xuân Ngọc commune, Xuân Trường district, Nam Định province, Vietnam, in the Diocese of Bùi Chu.

Dominic Maria was imprisoned by the Communist authorities from June 12, 1975, to April 29, 1977, on accusations of spying for the CIA.

[5] As of 2009[update], the U.S. province includes 23 priests, 54 brothers, five novices, seven postulants, and 25 high school students.

[7] As of 2012[update], the congregation has 500 seminarians in Ho Chi Minh City and sponsors 150 in the United States.

Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, then Bishop of Springfield–Cape Girardeau, sponsored the priests and brothers, inviting them to purchase a vacant Oblates of Mary Immaculate seminary, Our Lady of the Ozarks College, for a nominal price of $1, to use as their U.S.

[4][9][2] Between June 30 and September 3, 1975, nine priests, 154 brothers, and four novices arrived in Carthage, a predominantly Protestant town.