List of bishops of Rangoon

List of bishops of Rangoon

List of Bishops of Rangoon.

Bishops

* Jonathan Holt Titcomb 1877–1882
* John Miller Strachan 1882–1903
* Arthur Messac Knight 1903–1909
* Rolleston Sterritt Fyffe 1910–1928
* Norman Henry Tubbs 1928–1934
* George Algernon West 1835–1954
* Victor George Shearburn 1955–1966
* Francis Ah Mya 1966–1970

In 1966 all foreign missionaries were ejected from Burma. In 1970, the then Bishop of Rangoon Francis Ah Mya broke the Church of Burma away from the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon and became Archbishop of Rangoon.


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