International audienceFrom the 1920s onwards, Rome attempted to enforce deeply renewed missionary strategies, based on the affirmation of its authority, the strengthening of local Churches and the renewal of efforts to emancipate the missions from the colonial enterprise. The promotion of indigenous clergy was the keystone of this strategy. In Indochina, Rome and its delegates encouraged the equality of the Vietnamese clergy, already numerous, with the missionaries, in terms of training or access to management functions, including the episcopate. It was in Indochina that the first native bishops of the French empire were appointed in the 1930s. The measures recommended by Rome were met with a reserved reception among the missionaries, as th...