Pope Francis this week named Father Maurice Nyunt Wai of the Diocese of Pathein in Myanmar as new coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Mawlamyine in the southern part of the country.
The priest was born in the village of Myaungmya in Pathein on Jan. 23, 1962.
He attended minor seminary and secondary school in Pathein and took up higher studies at the Major Seminary in Yangon.
He was ordained priest on March 11, 1989, and incardinated in the Diocese of Pathein.
He took up his doctorate in Theology at the Alphonsian Academy in Rome from 1997 to 2002.
Father Maurice has served as assistant priest in Myaungmya parish, professor at the major seminary in Pyin-Oo-Lwin, parish priest in Pathein, rector of the a seminary, and vicar general and parish priest of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Pathein.
He is also executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Myanmar.
