Panya Kritcharoen

John Bosco Panya Kritcharoen ( Thai ปัญญา ก ฤ ษ เจริญ; born December 18, 1949 in Khlong Bang Tan, Banpong ) is a Thai priest and bishop of Ratchaburi.

Life

John Bosco Panya Kritcharoen received on 22 May 1976, the ordination. Pope John Paul II appointed him on 18 March 2005 as Bishop of Ratchaburi.

The Archbishop of Bangkok, Michael Mihai Cardinal Kitbunchu, donated to him on 28 May of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Salvatore Pennacchio, Apostolic Nuncio to Thailand, Singapore and Cambodia and Apostolic Delegate in Myanmar, Laos, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam, and Lawrence Thienchai Samanchit, Bishop of Chanthaburi.