Apostolic Vicariate of Burma

History

• 1741: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Ava and Pegu, on colonial territory split off from the British Indian Diocese of São Tomé de Meliapor
• Renamed in 1856 as Apostolic Vicariate of Burma / Birmania, but never had an actual Ordinary of that title, just a single Apostolic administrator
• Suppressed on 1866.11.27, its territory being dismembered and reassigned to establish the then Apostolic Vicariate of Central Burma, Apostolic Vicariate of Southwestern Burma and Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Burma)

  Ordinaries

• Pio Gallizia, Barnabites , Titular Bishop of Clysma
• Paolo Antonio Nerini, B., Titular Bishop of Oreus
• Benigno Avenati, B., Titular Bishop of Arindela
• Giovanni Maria Percoto, B., Titular Bishop of Maxula
• Gherardo Cortenovis, B., Titular Bishop of Sozopolis
• Gaetano Mantegazza, B., Titular Bishop of Maximianopolis ; succeeding as former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Ava and Pegu
• Marcello Cortenovis, B., Titular Bishop of Sebastopolis
• Frederic Cao, Piarists , Titular Bishop of Zama
• Giovanni Dominico Faustino Ceretti, Oblated of the Virgin Mary , Titular Bishop of Antæopolis
• Giovanni Antonio Balma, O.M.V., Titular Bishop of Ptolemais ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Cagliari

• Apostolic Administrator Paul Ambroise Bigandet, Paris Foreign Missions Society , while Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Western Siam and Titular Bishop of Ramata ; later Apostolic Vicar of Southwestern Burma , Apostolic Vicar of Southern Burma.