Diocese of Pyay
Pyayen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Pyay, Myanmar
Latin-rite diocese in western Myanmar, established as the Apostolic Prefecture of Akyab in 1940, elevated to the Diocese of Prome in 1961 and renamed Pyay in 1991. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Yangon, its seat is St. Paul's Cathedral in Pyay.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 8 October 1991
- Latin
- Pyayen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002691
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 25,810
- Population
- 9,028,000
- Catholic share
- 0.3%
- Extent
- 80,906 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.3
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Peter Tin Wai
- Born
- 2 July 1965
- Birthplace
- Natshinchaung
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St. Paul's Cathedral, Pyay stands in Pyay, 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.
The province of Yangon
A suffragan of Yangon.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Hpa-anHpa-an
- Diocese of MawlamyineMawlamyine
- Diocese of PatheinPathein
- Archdiocese of YangonYangon
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
St. Paul's Cathedral in Pyay, Bago Region, is the cathedral episcopal see of a Latin Catholic diocese in Burma, the Diocese of Pyay (Latin: Diocesis Pyayensis). Within the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Yangon (Rangoon) it holds suffragan rank, though like its metropolitan it depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].