Church of the Province of Myanmar

The great majority of the Anglo-Burmese and Anglo-Indian communities in the country were also Anglicans and the number of schools run by the Church of England to educate British and Eurasian children increased.

[2] With independence the number of Anglicans in the country decreased with the departure of the British and the subsequent exodus of the Anglo-Burmese and Anglo-Indians.

The Church of the Province of Myanmar embraces three orders of ordained ministry: deacon, priest and bishop.

The centre of the Church of the Province of Myanmar's teaching is the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The basic teachings of the church, or catechism, includes: The threefold sources of authority in Anglicanism are scripture, tradition and reason.

This balance of scripture, tradition and reason is traced to the work of Richard Hooker, a sixteenth-century apologist.