Diocese of Mawlamyine, Myanmar

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Mawlamyine / Maulamyinen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Yangon

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1993.03.22: Established as Diocese of Mawlamyine / Maulamyinen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Yangon and became suffragan of Yangon)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2023.05.31 – ...):

Bishop Maurice Nyunt Wai (62)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Mawlamyine (Roman Rite)

Bishop Maurice Nyunt Wai (62)
(2023.05.31 – ...)

Bishop of Mawlamyine (Myanmar)

Born:	1962.01.23 (Myaungmya, Myanmar)
Ordained Priest:	1989.03.11
Consecrated Bishop:	2022.04.24

Priest of Pathein (Myanmar) (1989.03.11 – 2022.02.22)

Coadjutor Bishop of Mawlamyine (Myanmar) (2022.02.22 – 2023.05.31)

Bishop of Mawlamyine (Myanmar) (2023.05.31 – ...)

Bishop Raymond Saw Po Ray (76)
(1993.03.22 – 2023.05.31)

Bishop emeritus of Mawlamyine (Myanmar)

To be holy

Born:	1948.08.11 (Mergui, Myanmar)
Ordained Priest:	1975.04.13
Consecrated Bishop:	1987.12.08

Priest of Rangoon (Myanmar) (1975.04.13 – 1987.07.03)

Titular Bishop of Buffada (1987.07.03 – 1993.03.22)

Auxiliary Bishop of Yangon (Myanmar) (1987.07.03 – 1993.03.22)

Bishop of Mawlamyine (Myanmar) (1993.03.22 – 2023.05.31)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Maurice Nyunt Wai (62) (2022.02.22 – 2023.05.31)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Holy Family Cathedral, Mawlamyine, Mon

Port Blair (↙), Hpa-an (↑), Nakhon Sawan (→), Ratchaburi (↘), Surat Thani (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 40,960 km²

Population: 14,240 Catholics (1.0% of 1,383,340 total)

Pastoral Centres: 28 parishes

Personnel: 26 priests (diocesan), 43 religious (2 brothers, 41 sisters), 2 seminarians

Diocese of

Mawlamyine UCA 𝐖