Oriental Orthodox Christianity is represented in

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

by a church of the Armenian Orthodox Church, although reports of inscriptions in Greek dating back to the 13th century may indicate an earlier (now extinct) Orthodox presence in what is now

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

Armenian Orthodoxy in Burma

Whatever historical presence the Orthodox Church may have had, thanks to the large Armenian merchant community in Burma there were at one time four Armenian Orthodox churches in what is today Myanmar in the cities of

Mandalay Mandalay ( or ; ) is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon. Located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 631km (392 miles) (Road Distance) north of Yangon, the city has a population of 1,225,553 (2014 census). Mandalay was fo ...

, Pegu,

Syriam Thanlyin (; or ; mnw, သေၚ်, ; formerly Syriam) is a major port city of Myanmar, located across Bago River from the city of Yangon. Thanlyin Township comprises 17 quarters and 28 village tracts. It is home to the largest port in the cou ...

, and

Yangon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

.''Armenian Apostolic Church of St. John the Baptist in Yangon (http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g294191-d4597650-Reviews-Armenian_Apostolic_Church_of_St_John_the_Baptist-Yangon_Rangoon_Yangon_Region.html)'' The only active church today is St. John the Baptist's in Yangon under the jurisdiction of the Armenian Orthodox Church of Echmiadzin.

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Directory of the Armenian Orthodox Church of Echmiadzin in Asia and Oceania
{{Christianity in Myanmar Christian denominations in Myanmar Armenian Apostolic Church Armenian diaspora in Asia

Armenian Orthodoxy in Burma

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