Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yangon


The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yangon is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Myanmar. Charles Bo, SDB was appointed Archbishop of Yangon by Pope John Paul II on May 24, 2003.

History

The diocese was erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Southwestern Burma by Pope Pius IX on November 27, 1866, and renamed as the Southern Burma on July 19, 1870 and later as the Apostolic Vicariate of Rangoon on May 7, 1953. It was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Pius XII on January 1, 1955, with the suffragan sees of Mawlamyine, Pathein, Pyay and Hpa-an which was newly erected on 24 January 2009. Pope John Paul II renamed it as the Archdiocese of Yangon on October 8, 1991.
The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is St. Mary's Cathedral.
IncumbentTerm StartTerm FinishNotes
Paul Ambroise Bigandet MEP12 August 187013 March 1894Died
Alexandre Cardot MEP19 March 189418 October 1925Died
Félix-Donatien Perroy MEP18 October 192510 April 1931Died
Frédéric-Marie Provost MEP10 April 193127 September 1952Died
Victor Bazin MEP7 May 195319 June 1971Resigned
Gabriel Thohey Mahn-Gaby19 June 197130 September 2002Retired
Charles Maung Bo SDB22 November 2003

Statistics

As of 16 July 2007 there are 83 priests and 312 religious in the archdiocese.

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