Background
Bo was born on 29 October 1948, in Monhla Village, Shwebo District, Sagaing Region, Myanmar to parents John and Juliana Aye Tin.
Bo was born on 29 October 1948, in Monhla Village, Shwebo District, Sagaing Region, Myanmar to parents John and Juliana Aye Tin.
He was installed to his current post on 7 June 2003. Bo"s father, a farmer, died when he was 2. Thereafter, he was sent to a Salesian-run boarding school in Mandalay.
From 1962 to 1976, Bo studied at the Nazareth Aspirantate, a Salesian seminary, in Anisakan village, near Maymyo (now Pyin Oo Lwin).
Bo was ordained a priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco order on 9 April 1976. He was appointed as prefect of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lashio in 1986.
Four years later, he was consecrated Bishop of Lashio. In 1996, he was transferred to the Diocese of Pathein.
At that ceremony, he was assigned the titular church of Sant"Ireneo a Centocelle.
In April 2015 he was appointed a member of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life and of the Pontifical Council for Culture by Pope Francis.