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The Catholic Church in Indian Ocean island states of Sri Lanka and Maldives is solely composed of one Latin ecclesiastical province, comprising a Metropolitan archdiocese and twelve suffragan dioceses, all in Sri Lanka, which jointly constitute the (bi)national Episcopal Conference of Sri Lanka. The Maldives have no actual jurisdiction, but are ...
Roman Catholic Diocese of Trincomalee (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Roman Catholic dioceses in Sri Lanka" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Template:Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington This page was last edited on 3 January 2014, at 00:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Franciscan Friar Vicente, the chaplain of the fleet, celebrated Mass. This is the first record of a Catholic Mass on Sri Lankan soil. Over the next few centuries, Portuguese, Dutch, and Irish missionaries spread the religion in Sri Lanka, most notably on the western and northwestern coast, where in some places Catholics are half the population.
The prefecture was elevated to a full diocese in 1982, and is a suffragan to the Archdiocese of Colombo. Norbert Marshall Andradi, appointed in 2003, is the bishop. St. Joseph's Cathedral, possibly the oldest church in Sri Lanka, was founded by the Portuguese missionary Pedro de la Fonseca in 1544. The present building dates from 1845. [1]
The suit names St. Joseph Catholic Church in Cold Spring, the parish school, a teacher, an administrator and the Diocese of Covington.
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Lost territories repeatedly : on 1893.08.25 to establish Diocese of Galle and Diocese of Trincomalee, on 1939.01.05 to establish Diocese of Chilaw, all three as its suffragans Its name was changed by Pope Pius XII to the Archdiocese of Colombo in Ceylon on December 6, 1944, but was returned to simply the Archdiocese of Colombo on May 22, 1972 ...