Church of the Province of Myanmar Stephen Than Myint Oo. Erected from Rangoon diocese in 1978; St Peter's Cathedral, Hpa-an. Erected 198? from Yangon diocese; Christ Church Cathedral, Mandalay. Missionary district, from Mandalay diocese, created 1987; erected a diocese 1990; Christ the King Cathedral, Myitkyina. Erected 1990 from Yangon diocese; St Mark's Cathedral, Sittwe. Missionary district created from Pann diocese, 1992; erected a diocese 1994; St Paul's Cathedral, Toungoo. There are mainly four departments for ministry and mission under the province,diocese and parish administration. The Church of the Province of Myanmar embraces three orders of ordained ministry: deacon, priest and bishop. A local version of the
Communist insurgency in Myanmar led by trade union leaders Thakins Lwin and Chit Maung, and dubbed 'crypto-communists' or 'red socialists' by the Rangoon press. They tried unsuccessfully to bring the communists back into mainstream politics, and in 1956 formed an alliance called the National United Front to contest the election on a 'peace ticket' winning 35% of the vote though only a small number of seats. The politburo's decision to fight 'for the very existence of our party' at a clandestine central committee meeting in April 1948 in Rangoon was confirmed the following month by the full plenum of the CC at Hpyu 120