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
History of the Jews in Myanmar nationalist Burmese government. One synagogue survives in Yangon, the capital, and in the 21st century, it attracts an increasing number of tourists. The first recorded Jew in the country was Solomon Gabirol, who served as a commander in the army of King Alaungpaya in the 18th century. But it was in the mid-19th century, during the British colonial period, that Jewish merchants from Iraq and India began establishing sizable communities in Rangoon and Mandalay. The Baghdadi Jews had emigrated from Iraq to escape persecution and being subject to pogroms; they comprised most of the immigrants. Cochin Jews and the Bene