Paul Zingtung Grawng (20 March 1935 – 24 October 2020) was a
Myanmar
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Roman Catholic
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archbishop
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Zingtung Grawng was born in
Myanmar
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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1965. He served as
titular bishop
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By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of 'Rusguniea' and as
auxiliary bishop and bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Myitkyina
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Myitkyina (Lat: ''Dioecesis Myitkyinaensis'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Burma
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, Myanmar, from 1976 to 2003 and as archbishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mandalay
Archdiocese of Mandalay is located in the central part of Myanmar. It covers about and comprises the southern part of Sagaing Region, almost the whole Mandalay Region and the eastern part of Magwe Region. The archdiocese has the suffragan dioceses ...
Myanmar, from 2003 to 2014.
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1935 births
2020 deaths
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Myanmar
Burmese Roman Catholic archbishops
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