Bishop Abraham Than

Bishop Emeritus of Kengtung

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Sep 1927		Born	Mong Block
22 Sep 1957	30.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
19 Dec 1968	41.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Kengtung, Myanmar
19 Dec 1968	41.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tortibulum
11 May 1969	41.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tortibulum
19 Sep 1972	45.0	Appointed	Bishop of Kengtung, Myanmar
2 Oct 2001	74.0	Resigned	Bishop of Kengtung, Myanmar

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Kengtung.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Sebastian U Shwe Yauk †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Aloysius Moses U Ba Khim †
Bishop Joseph Mahn Erie

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Abraham Than (1969)
Bishop Sebastian U Shwe Yauk † (1961)
Pope Bl. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli † (1925)
Giovanni Cardinal Tacci Porcelli † (1895)
Amilcare Cardinal Malagola † (1876)
Filippo Cardinal de Angelis † (1826)
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galeffi † (1819)
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Devellerez Thaung Shwe
Bishop Isaac Danu
Bishop Joseph Valerius Sequeira †
Bishop Sotero Phamo (Thein Myint)
Archbishop Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B.
Bishop Peter Louis Cakü
Bishop Peter Hla

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