Suffragan diocese Pekhon, Myanmar
Diocese of Pekhon
Pekhonen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin-rite diocese in southern Shan State, Myanmar, erected on 15 December 2005 from the Archdiocese of Taunggyi, of which it is a suffragan. Its seat is Sacred Heart Cathedral in Pekhon; Bishop Felice Ba Htoo, coadjutor from 2024, succeeded as bishop on 2 February 2026.
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- Established
- 2005
- Catholics
- 57,724
- Priests
- 45
- Territory
- 25,890 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Felice Ba Htoo
- Born
- 27 April 1963
- Birthplace
- Sonbalan
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The cathedral
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Pekhon stands in Pekhon, 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
In Pekhon, Shan State, the Catholic Church in Myanmar maintains the Diocese of Pekhon (Dioecesis Pekhonensis), a Latin Catholic diocese and suffragan of the Archdiocese of Taunggyi. It was created on December 15, 2005 from territory split off from that archdiocese, and Peter Hla, previously auxiliary bishop of Taunggyi, was chosen as its first bishop.