Apostolic Vicariate of Burma
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The Apostolic Vicariate of Burma (nearly all its existence Apostolic Vicariate of Ava and Pegu) was a
British Burma
from 1741 until 1866.
History
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- 1741: Established as Diocese of São Tomé de Meliapor(now suppressed into Metropolitan Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore)
- Renamed in 1856 as Apostolic Vicariate of Burma / Birmania (Curiate Italian), but never had an actual Ordinary of that title, just a single Apostolic administrator
- Suppressed on 1866.11.27, its territory being dismembered and reassigned to establish the then Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Burma)
Ordinaries
- Apostolic Vicars of Ava and Pegu
- Pio Gallizia, 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 Coadjutor Vicar Apostolicof 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
- Southern Burma(1870.07.19 – 1894.03.13).