Apostolic Vicariate of Burma

The Apostolic Vicariate of Burma (nearly all its existence Apostolic Vicariate of Ava and Pegu) was a Latin Church missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in British Burma from 1741 until 1866.

History

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Ordinaries

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Apostolic Vicars of Ava and Pegu
  • Pio Gallizia, Barnabites (B.) (1741.01.25 – death 1745.03.23), Titular Bishop of Clysma (1741.01.25 – 1745.03.23)
  • Paolo Antonio Nerini, B. (1753.11.16 – death 1756), Titular Bishop of Oreus (1753.11.16 – 1756)
  • Benigno Avenati, B. (1764.08.22 – death 1765.09.27 not possessed), Titular Bishop of Arindela (1764.08.22 – 1765.09.27)
  • Giovanni Maria Percoto, B. (1765.11.08 – death 1776.12.12), Titular Bishop of Maxula (1765.11.08 – 1776.12.12)
  • Gherardo Cortenovis, B. (1778.01.28 – death 1780.05.05), Titular Bishop of Sozopolis (1778.01.28 – 1780.05.05)
  • Gaetano Mantegazza, B. (1780.05.05 – death 1794.08.04), Titular Bishop of Maximianopolis (1778.06.25 – 1794.08.04); succeeding as former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Ava and Pegu (1778.06.25 – 1780.05.05)
  • Marcello Cortenovis, B. (1797.02.14 – death 1798.10.25), Titular Bishop of Sebastopolis (1797.02.14 – 1798.10.25)
  • Frederic Cao, Piarists (Sch. P.) (1830.06.18 – retired 1841.07.11), Titular Bishop of Zama (1830.06.18 – death 1852.06.27)
  • Giovanni Dominico Faustino Ceretti, Oblated of the Virgin Mary (O.M.V.) (1842.07.05 – retired 1846.12.26), Titular Bishop of Antæopolis (1842.07.05 – death 1855.12.25)
  • Giovanni Antonio Balma, O.M.V. (1848.09.05 – 1855.09.09), Titular Bishop of Ptolemais (in Phoenicia) (1848.09.05 – 1871.10.27); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Cagliari (Italy) (1871.10.27 – death 1881.04.05)
Apostolic Vicariate of Burma

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