John-Nhan Tran

John Trần Văn Nhàn[1] (also known as John-Nhan Tran or John Nhàn Trần[2]) (born February 6, 1966) is a Vietnamese-born prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Atlanta in Georgia since 2022.

[5] When Tran was nine, his family fled from Saigon, South Vietnam on a small boat.

Deciding that he wanted to become a priest, he was accepted into the high school program of the Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer (then called the Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix) in Carthage, Missouri, for the 8th grade in the school year of 1979–1980.

[7] Tran then transferred to a boarding high school in Goshen, New York, operated by the Salesians of Don Bosco.

[Note 1] After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, he celebrated Mass for first responders and other personnel in parking lots and nursing homes.

[9] During his time in New Orleans, Tran served on the priest personnel board and as chair of the presbyteral council.

Bishop Nhàn's alma mater, Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana.