Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yangon

Archdiocese of Yangon
Archidioecesis Yangonensis

Location
Country Myanmar
Ecclesiastical province Yangon
Statistics
Area 68,000 km2 (26,000 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2010)
14,050,000
76,283 (0.5%)
Information
Rite Latin Rite
Cathedral Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Yangon
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop Charles Maung Bo
Suffragans Diocese of Hpa-an
Diocese of Mawlamyine
Diocese of Pathein
Diocese of Pyay
Auxiliary Bishops John Saw Yaw Han

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Yangon (Latin: Archidioecesis Yangonensis) 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.

Incumbent Term Start Term Finish Notes
Paul Ambroise Bigandet MEP 12 August 1870 13 March 1894 Died
Alexandre Cardot MEP 19 March 1894 18 October 1925 Died
Félix-Donatien Perroy MEP 18 October 1925 10 April 1931 Died
Frédéric-Marie Provost MEP 10 April 193 27 September 1952 Died
Victor Bazin MEP 7 May 1953 19 June 1971 Resigned
Gabriel Thohey Mahn-Gaby 19 June 1971 30 September 2002 Retired
Charles Maung Bo SDB 22 November 2003

Statistics

As of 16 July 2007 there are 83 priests and 312 religious in the archdiocese.[1]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Vatican Information Service July 17, 2007

See also

Wikisource has the text of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article Burma.

Coordinates: 16°46′42″N 96°10′00″E / 16.77833°N 96.16667°E / 16.77833; 96.16667


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