Abraham Than

Abraham Than was a Burmese Roman Catholic prelate.

Life and work

Than was ordained a priest on 22 September 1957. Pope Paul VI appointed him auxiliary bishop of Kengtung and titular bishop of Tortibulum on 19 December 1968. The Bishop of Toungoo, Sebastian U Shwe Yauk, consecrated him bishop on 11 May of the following year; Co-consecrators were Aloysius Moses U Ba Khim, Archbishop of Mandalay, and Joseph Mahn Erie, Bishop of Bassein.
On 19 September 1972, he was appointed Bishop of Kengtung. He resigned from his office on 2 October 2001.
Than died on 17 August 2025, at the age of 97.