The Roman Catholic Diocese of Badulla (Lat: ''Dioecesis Badullana'') is a
diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...
of the
Latin Church
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
in
Sri Lanka.
Erected as the Diocese of Badulla in 1972, the diocese was created from territory in the
Diocese of Kandy. The diocese is suffragan to the
Archdiocese of Colombo
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Colombo ( la, Archidioecesis Columbensis in Taprobane) is a Latin Metropolitan Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church, whose ecclesiastical province covers all Sri Lanka plus the Maldives (which are ...
. Its cathedral is
St. Mary’s church.
The current bishop is Julian Winston Sebastian Fernando, appointed in 1997.
Ordinaries
*Leo Nanayakkara, O.S.B. (18 December 1972 Appointed – 28 May 1982 Died)
*Edmund Joseph Fernando, O.M.I. (5 December 1983 Appointed – 3 March 1997 Retired)
*Julian Winston Sebastian Fernando, S.S.S. (25 March 1997 – 30 January 2023)
*Echchampulle Arachchige Jude Nishanta Silva (30 January 2023 – present)
References
External links
''Catholic Hierarchy''
{{Authority control
Badulla