Suffragan diocese Pathein, Myanmar
Diocese of Pathein
Patheinen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin-rite diocese in the Ayeyarwady Delta of Myanmar, erected on 1 January 1955 as the Diocese of Bassein from the Vicariate Apostolic of Rangoon and renamed Pathein on 8 October 1991. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Yangon, its seat is St. Peter's Cathedral in Pathein.
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- Established
- 1955
- Catholics
- 71,908
- Priests
- 88
- Territory
- 25,328 km²
Parishes and churches
31 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- St. Peter’s CathedralTagaung Paya Road, Pathein · CathedralView parish
- Ascension ChurchCatholic Church(Wakema, Kyon-Pauk )View parish
- Assumption’s churchMyit-ka-lay villageView parish
- Christ the King ChurchAmatgyi Aima VillageView parish
- Immaculate ConceptionZaungdan villageView parish
- Infant Jesus of PragueMoegyopyit Aima villageView parish
- Mary Help of ChristiansYwathikone villageView parish
- Our Lady of Fatima ChurchEinme TownshipView parish
- Our Lady of Lourdes ChurchKyontaloak villageView parish
- Our Lady of Lourdes’ ChurchThinganai villageView parish
- Our Lady of the AssumptionChan-tha-gone villageView parish
- Our lady of the Assumption ChurchKanazogone villageView parish
- Our Lady of the Rosary ChruchTaungchaung villageView parish
- Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchMaryland villageView parish
- Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchMyaung-mya TownshipView parish
- Sacred Hearts’s ChurchYwegone villageView parish
- Sacred Heart’s ChurchMa-gyi-kone KyaiklatView parish
- Sacred Heart’s ChurchByaungbyan villageView parish
- St. Francis Xavier’s ChurchCatholic Church, Myan-aungView parish
- St. Joseph’s Catholic ChurchSinlu Kyaungsu VillageView parish
- St. Joseph’s Catholic ChurchSharge villageView parish
- St. Joseph’s Catholic ChurchYe-nan-taung VillageView parish
- St. Joseph’s ChurchPauk-sein-be villageView parish
- St. Mary’s Catholic ChurchHinthdaView parish
- St. Mary’s Catholic ChurchThein-La villageView parish
- St.John Bosco’s ChurchKayinthonesint, Kyaungone TsView parish
- St.Jonh’s ChurchMadotgone Pathein WestView parish
- St.Joseph’s Catholic ChurchThayetchaung VillageView parish
- St.Joseph’s Catholic ChurchThe-byu villageView parish
- St.Maria Goretti’s ChurchTaungyagone villageView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Henry Eikhlein
- Born
- 23 June 1960
- Birthplace
- Painne Chaung
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The cathedral
St. Peter's Cathedral, Pathein stands in Pathein, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
The city of Pathein in Burma is the headquarters of a Latin Catholic diocese of the Catholic Church that bears its name, the Diocese of Pathein, rendered in Latin as Diocesis Patheinensis.