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 * type       = Archbishop
 * honorific-prefix = His Excellency, The Most Reverend
 * name       = Paul Zinghtung Grawng
 * title      = Emeritus Bishop of Mandalay


 * archdiocese = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mandalay
 * diocese    = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Mandalay
 * appointed  = 16.06.2003
 * predecessor =
 * successor  = NICHOLAS MANG THANG
 * predecessor =
 * successor  = NICHOLAS MANG THANG


 * ordination    =27.03.1965


 * consecration  = 03.04.1976


 * birth_date   = 20.03.1939
 * birth_place  = Kachin State, Burma

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Archbishop Paul Zinghtung Grawng was born on March 20, 1939. He was ordained priest on March 27, 1965, and bishop on April 3, 1976. His installation was on July 9 1976. In 2003, he was transferred to Mandalay and installed Archbishop on June 16 2003. On June 29 of that year he went to Rome to receive pallium from Pope John Paul II together with Archbishop Charles Bo of Yangon. Within the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Myanmar, he is Chairman of the Episcopal Commission for Christian Family and of Myanmar Institute of Formation for Formators.