Apostolic Vicariate of Burma
The Apostolic Vicariate of Burma was a Latin Church missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in British Burma from 1741 until 1866.
History
- 1741: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Ava and Pegu, on colonial territory split off from the British Indian Diocese of São Tomé de Meliapor
- Renamed in 1856 as Apostolic Vicariate of Burma / Birmania, 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 Central Burma, Apostolic Vicariate of Southwestern Burma and Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Burma)
Ordinaries
;Apostolic Vicars of Ava and Pegu- Pio Gallizia, Barnabites, Titular Bishop of Clysma
- Paolo Antonio Nerini, B., Titular Bishop of Oreus
- Benigno Avenati, B., Titular Bishop of Arindela
- Giovanni Maria Percoto, B., Titular Bishop of Maxula
- Gherardo Cortenovis, B., Titular Bishop of Sozopolis
- Gaetano Mantegazza, B., Titular Bishop of Maximianopolis ; succeeding as former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Ava and Pegu
- Marcello Cortenovis, B., Titular Bishop of Sebastopolis
- Frederic Cao, Piarists, Titular Bishop of Zama
- Giovanni Dominico Faustino Ceretti, Oblated of the Virgin Mary, Titular Bishop of Antæopolis
- Giovanni Antonio Balma, O.M.V., Titular Bishop of Ptolemais (in Phoenicia) ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Cagliari
- ''Apostolic Administrator Paul Ambroise Bigandet, Paris Foreign Missions Society, while Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Western Siam and Titular Bishop of Ramata ; later Apostolic Vicar of Southwestern Burma, Apostolic Vicar of Southern Burma.''