Diocese of Pathein
Patheinen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Pathein, Myanmar
Latin-rite diocese in the Ayeyarwady Delta of Myanmar, erected on 1 January 1955 as the Diocese of Bassein from the Vicariate Apostolic of Rangoon and renamed Pathein on 8 October 1991. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Yangon, its seat is St. Peter's Cathedral in Pathein.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 8 October 1991
- Latin
- Patheinen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002559
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 71,908
- Population
- 4,992,080
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 1.4%
- Priests
- 88
- Catholics per priest
- 817
- Extent
- 25,328 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.8
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
- Henry Eikhlein
- Born
- 23 June 1960
- Birthplace
- Painne Chaung
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
St. Peter's Cathedral, Pathein stands in Pathein, 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.
The province of Yangon
A suffragan of Yangon.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Hpa-anHpa-an
- Diocese of MawlamyineMawlamyine
- Diocese of PyayPyay
- Archdiocese of YangonYangon
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Pathein in Burma is the headquarters of a Latin Catholic diocese of the Catholic Church that bears its name, the Diocese of Pathein, rendered in Latin as Diocesis Patheinensis.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- St. Peter’s Cathedral, Tagaung Phaya Rd., Pathein 10011, Myanmar
- Telephone
- 945.1234.739
- winpathein@gmail.com
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.