Rome, Italy, Mar 9, 2010 / 02:23 am
Archbishop of Hanoi Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet arrived in Rome on March 5 for medical treatment for chronic insomnia and stress.
The archbishop had been on medical leave at a monastery in Chau Son in Ninh Binh province since the beginning of January, VietCatholic News reports. He was invited to Rome by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Pontifical Council of Cor Unum.
Upon his early morning arrival in Rome he was greeted by a group of Vietnamese clergy and religious men and women who were working in Rome.
His medical problems have been attributed to the pressure of his pastoral duties in his archdiocese, one of the largest in Vietnam.