High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Yangon (Latin: Archidioecesis Yangonensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Myanmar. The current Archbishop of Yangon is His Excellency Charles Bo, SDB, having been appointed by John Paul II on May 24, 2003. The diocese was erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Southwestern Burma by Pope Pius IX on November 27, 1866, and renamed as the Southern Burma on July 19, 1870 and later as the Apostolic Vicariate of Rangoon on May 7, 1953. It was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Pius XII on January 1, 1955, with the suffragan sees of Mawlamyine, Pathein, and Pyay. Pope John Paul II renamed it as the Archdiocese of Yangon on October 8, 1991. The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is St. Mary's Cathedral.

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