Diocese of Mindat
Mindatin(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mindat, Myanmar
Latin-rite diocese in southern Chin State, Myanmar, erected on 25 January 2025, one of the newest dioceses in the country. Its principal church is the Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in Mindat, and its first bishop, Augustine Thang Zawm Hung, was appointed in 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 January 2025
- Latin
- Mindatin(us)
- Annuario code
- 001005129
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 14,394
- Population
- 358,866
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 4.0%
- Priests
- 48
- Catholics per priest
- 300
- Extent
- 17,156 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.8
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
- Augustine Thang Zawm Hung
- Born
- 4 December 1973
- Birthplace
- Mindat
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
Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mindat stands in Mindat, 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
One of the Church's newest jurisdictions in Myanmar, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mindat was created on 25 January 2025. Its cathedral is the Church of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in Mindat in Chin State, and its bishop-elect is Msgr. Augustine Thang Zawm Hung.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop's Residence, Church Compound, Sanpya, Mindat, Chin State, Myanmar
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.