Pope Francis appointed Most. Rev. Msgr. Raymond Wai Lin Htun will be the auxiliary bishop of Yangon Archdiocese in Myanmar on December 27.

49 years old, Msgr. Raymond is the Defender of the Bond at the Interdiocesan Ecclesiastical Tribunal in the Archdiocese of Yangon since 2020.

Msgr. Raymond was born in Hton-Bo-Quay village, in the diocese of Hpa-An on September 22, 1976, and he belonged to Hpa-An Diocese.

The bishop-elect was ordained priest on March 18, 2007.

He studied in Rome from 2011 to 2014 and held a Licentiate in Canon Law.

Since 2015, Msgr. Raymond was a professor at St. Joseph Catholic Major Seminary in Yangon, Myanmar.