Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B., Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, was born in Monhla Village, Shwebo District, Mandalay Division,  in the archdiocese of Mandalay on 29 October 1948.

He studied at Nazareth Salesian Aspirantate, Anisakan, in Pyin Oo Lwin from 1962 to 1976. He made his first profession on 24 May 1970 and his final profession on 10 March 1976.

He was ordained to the priesthood of Salesians of Saint John Bosco, in Lashio, N.S.S. on 9 April 1976.

Upon ordination, he was assigned as parish priest at Loihkam from 1976 to 1981, and in Lashio from 1981 to 1983. After serving as parish priest, from 1983 until 1985 he was assigned at Anisakan as formator.

He served as apostolic administrator in Lashio from 1985 to 1986 and as apostolic prefect from 1986 to 1990. When the prefecture was elevated to the status of diocese in 7 July 1990, he was appointed as first bishop of the new diocese. He received episcopal consecration on 16 December of the same year.

He was appointed as bishop of Pathein by Saint John Paul II on 13 March 1996.

On 24 May 2003, he was nominated Archbishop of Yangon and was installed on 7 June 2003.

He served as president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Myanmar from 2000 to 2006.

On 14 July 2018, Pope Francis Francis appointed him president delegate of the XV Ordinary General Assembly on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment.

He is the President of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) since 1 January 2019.

He was created and proclaimed cardinal by Pope Francis in the Consistory of 14 February 2015, and was assigned the titular church Sant’Ireneo a Centocelle.

Member of:

·     Dicasteries: for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments; for Communication