Stephen Than Myint Oo (born 1958) is a Burmese Anglican bishop. He has been the primate and archbishop of the

Church of the Province of Myanmar The Church of the Province of Myanmar in Asia is a member church of the Anglican Communion. The province comprises the entire country of Myanmar. The current archbishop of Myanmar and bishop of Yangon is Stephen Than Myint Oo. Official name The ...

and Bishop of Yangon since 2008.

Ecclesiastical career

He studied at the Trinity Theological College in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

, returning to

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

afterwards. He was first a parish priest, then becoming lecturer and afterwards dean of the Holy Cross Theological College in

Yangon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

in 1993. He was elected bishop of the Diocese of Hpa-An in 2005. He would be in office until his election as the 6th Archbishop of Myanmar, at the general synod held at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Yangon, among five candidates, on 15 January 2008. His enthronement took place on 17 February 2008 when he was also enthroned the 13th Bishop of Yangon. Among the representatives who attended the ceremony were Archbishop John Chew of the

Church of the Province of South East Asia The Church of the Province of South East Asia is an autonomous member of the Anglican Communion, created in 1996 with the four dioceses of Kuching, Sabah, Singapore and West Malaysia. There are approximately 98,000 Anglicans within the prov ...

and Bishop

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of the Diocese of Winchester in the

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who represented the Archbishop of Canterbury,

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. He attended, with all the Burmese Anglican College of Bishops, the

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in August 2008. He became a supporter of the

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movement as a member of the Global South and the

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primates. He attended the Global South Fourth Encounter in

from 19-23 April 2010. He was also one of the seven Anglican archbishops present at the enthronement of

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as the second primate and archbishop of the

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on 9 October 2014.A statement from the Primates of the Global South and the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, Global South Online, 13 October 2014
/ref> Than is also the global trustee of the Anglican Relief and Development Fund. He attended GAFCON III, held in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, on 17-22 June 2018.

References

External links

"New Primate and Archbishop of the Church of Myanmar", Global South Anglican Online
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Ecclesiastical career

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