Suffragan diocese Pyay, Myanmar
Diocese of Pyay
Pyayen(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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- Established
- 1961
- Catholics
- 25,810
- Priests
- 48
- Territory
- 80,906 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Peter Tin Wai
- Born
- 2 July 1965
- Birthplace
- Natshinchaung
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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.
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.