Diocese of Loikaw, Myanmar 🇲🇲

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Loikaw / Loikaven(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Taunggyi

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1988.11.14: Established as Diocese of Loikaw / Loikaven(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Taunggyi and became suffragan of Rangoon)
1998.01.17: Became suffragan of Taunggyi

Present Prelates

Bishop (2023.03.29 – ...):

Bishop Celso Ba Shwe (61)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Loikaw (Roman Rite)

Bishop Celso Ba Shwe (61)
(2023.03.29 – ...)

Bishop of Loikaw (Myanmar)

Born:	1964.07.22 (Momblo, Myanmar)
Ordained Priest:	1994.04.16
Consecrated Bishop:	2023.06.29

Priest of Loikaw (Myanmar) (1994.04.16 – 2023.03.29)

Bishop of Loikaw (Myanmar) (2023.03.29 – ...)

Bishop Sephen Tjephe
(2014.11.15 – 2020.12.16)

In the name of God

Born:	1955.08.01 (Danoku, Myanmar)
Ordained Priest:	1984.03.28
Consecrated Bishop:	2009.11.21
Died:	2020.12.16 (Loikaw, Myanmar † 65)

Priest of Loikaw (Myanmar) (1984.03.28 – 2009.06.19)

Titular Bishop of Nova barbara (2009.06.19 – 2014.11.15)

Auxiliary Bishop of Loikaw (Myanmar) (2009.06.19 – 2014.11.15)

Apostolic Administrator of Loikaw (Myanmar) (2014.04.26 – 2014.11.15)

Bishop of Loikaw (Myanmar) (2014.11.15 – 2020.12.16)

Bishop Sephen Tjephe
(Apostolic Administrator 2014.04.26 – 2014.11.15)

Bishop Sotero Phamo (82)
(1988.11.14 – 2014.04.26)

Bishop emeritus of Loikaw (Myanmar)

We are one family

Born:	1943.11.23 (Hoya, Myanmar)
Ordained Priest:	1972.03.18
Consecrated Bishop:	1989.04.22

Priest of Taunggyi (Myanmar) (1972.03.18 – 1988.11.14)

Bishop of Loikaw (Myanmar) (1988.11.14 – 2014.04.26)

Apostolic Administrator of Yangon (Myanmar) (2002.09.30 – 2003.05.24)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Sephen Tjephe (2009.06.19 – 2014.11.15)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Christ the King Cathedral, Loikaw, Kayah
Co-Cathedral: Co-Cathedral of the Mother of God, Saungdu, Kayah
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Taungngu (←), Pekhon (↑), Chiang Mai (→)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 11,730 km²

Population: 91,773 Catholics (30.2% of 304,150 total)

Pastoral Centres: 40 parishes, 1 mission

Personnel: 102 priests (89 diocesan, 13 religious), 251 religious (21 brothers, 230 sisters), 15 seminarians