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Christianity in Myanmar has a history dating to the early 18th century. According to the 2016 census , Christianity is the country's second largest religion, practiced by 6.3% of the population, [ 1 ] primarily among the Kachin , Chin and Kayin , and Eurasians because of missionary work in their respective areas. [ 2 ]
Christians make up about 6% of Myanmar’s overwhelmingly Buddhist population, but about 34% of Kachin's estimated 1.7 million population. ... U.S. Government funded Radio Free Asia reported last ...
Protestant Christianity in Myanmar began in the early 19th century, largely through the missionary efforts of the Americans Adoniram and Ann Judson, Baptist missionaries who first arrived in 1813. Later missionaries such as Arthur and Laura Carson, also Baptist missionaries from America, established work in the Chin Hills in 1899. [ 3 ]
The Catholic Church in Myanmar (also known as Burma) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. In 2020, there were approximately 700,000 Catholics in Burma—approximately 1.29% of the total population. [1] The country is divided into sixteen dioceses including three archdioceses.
Interior view of the Armenian Apostolic Church of St. John the Baptist in Yangon, Myanmar. Oriental Orthodox Christianity is represented in Burma by a church of the Armenian Orthodox Church, although reports of inscriptions in Greek dating back to the 13th century [1] may indicate an earlier (now extinct) Orthodox presence in what is now Myanmar.
2008 All the bishops and the Archbishop of Myanmar attended the Lambeth Conference. 2009 James Min Din former Distributor of Myanmar Bible Society and Secretary of Anglican Young People's Association became the Diocesan Bishop of Sittwe. 2010 The second Church of the Province of Myanmar gathering, Myitkyina (1–8 December 2010), from six dioceses.
The denomination is a member of the World Reformed Fellowship. [3] Partner church relationship with the Presbyterian Church in Australia was established in 2003. The Evangelical Reformed Church is involved in church planting; they have planted 3 congregations around the wider Yangon area including Tarmwe, Htauk Kyant, and Tada townships.
Lisu Church is a Christian church of an ethnic minority of southwestern China, Myanmar, Thailand and a part of India. The Chinese government's State Administration for Religious Affairs has proposed considering Christianity the official religion of the Lisu.