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Diocese of

Lashio

Myanmar Myanmar

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese

Area: 36,000 km²

Population: 25,151 Catholics (1.0% of 2,551,000 total) (2015)

Ecclesiastical Province: Mandalay

Neighbouring Dioceses: Taunggyi (↙), Mandalay (←), Myitkyina (↑), Dali 大理 (↗)

Depends on: Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

Statistics: 20 parishes, 8 missions, 42 priests (34 diocesan, 8 religious), 139 lay religious (10 brothers, 129 sisters), 24 seminarians (2015)

History

Special Churches

Present Prelates

Bishop (1998.04.03 – ...):Bishop Philip Lasap Za Hawng (73)Bishop Philip Lasap Za Hawng (73)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Lashio (Roman Rite)

Bishop Philip Lasap Za Hawng (73)Bishop Philip Lasap Za Hawng (73)Permalink
(1998.04.03 – ...)

Bishop of Lashio (Myanmar)

Crux Christi pax

Born:1945.02.12 (Myanmar)
Ordained Priest:1973.03.01
Consecrated Bishop:1994.04.30

Titular Bishop of Avioccala (1993.12.20 – 1998.04.03)

Auxiliary Bishop of Myitkyina (Myanmar) (1993.12.20 – 1998.04.03)

Bishop of Lashio (Myanmar) (1998.04.03 – ...)

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B. (69)Bishop Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B. (69) (later Cardinal)Permalink
(1990.07.07 – 1996.03.13)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Ireneo a Centocelle
Metropolitan Archbishop of Yangon (Myanmar)

Omnia possum in eo

Born:1948.10.29 (Myanmar)
Ordained Priest:1976.04.09
Consecrated Bishop:1990.12.16
Created Cardinal:2015.02.14

Bishop of Lashio (Myanmar) (1990.07.07 – 1996.03.13)

Bishop of Pathein (Myanmar) (1996.03.13 – 2003.05.24)

President of Myanmar Catholic Bishops’ Conference (2000 – 2006)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Yangon (Myanmar) (2003.05.24 – ...)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Ireneo a Centocelle (2015.02.14 [2015.10.21] – ...)

Prefects Apostolic of Lashio (Roman Rite)

Fr. John Jocelyn Madden, S.D.B.Permalink
(1975.11.20 – 1985)

Born: (Australia)
Died:1987

Prefect Apostolic of Lashio (Myanmar) (1975.11.20 – 1985)

as of 2018.04.08

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