Stephen Than Myint Oo

Stephen Than Myint Oo (born 1958) is a Burmese Anglican bishop. He has been the primate and archbishop of the Church of the Province of Myanmar and Bishop of Yangon since 2008.

Ecclesiastical career He studied at the Trinity Theological College in Singapore, returning to Myanmar afterwards. He was first a parish priest, then becoming lecturer and afterwards dean of the Holy Cross Theological College in Yangon in 1993.

He attended, with all the Burmese Anglican College of Bishops, the Lambeth Conference in August 2008. He became a supporter of the Anglican realignment movement as a member of the Global South and the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans primates. He attended the Global South Fourth Encounter in Singapore from 19-23 April 2010. He was also one of the seven Anglican archbishops present at the enthronement of Foley Beach as the second primate and archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America on 9 October 2014. Than is also the global trustee of the Anglican Relief and Development Fund. He attended GAFCON III, held in Jerusalem, on 17-22 June 2018.

Detention The archbishop has spent time in prison during the country's military rule.