Panya Kritcharoen information

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Panya Kritcharoen" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (October 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

The Most Reverend John Bosco Panya Kritcharoen (Thai: ปัญญา กฤษเจริญ; born December 18, 1949) is the bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Ratchaburi, Thailand.

Born in Bangtan-Banpong, Ratchaburi province, he studied in Thailand and the United States. He was ordained as priest on May 22, 1976, in Ratchaburi, and then worked as assistant priest, parish priest, as well as school headmaster, rector of the diocesan minor seminary, director of the Centre for Evangelisation, member of the Commission for the Pontifical Mission Societies, president of the Commission for Evangelisation of Peoples and pastoral care for health workers.

While serving as parish priest of Chombung, he was appointed as the bishop of the diocese of Ratchaburi by Pope John Paul II on March 18, 2005. He was consecrated on May 28 by Cardinal Michael Michai Kitbunchu.