The Diocese of Trincomalee ( la, Dioecesis Trincomaliensis) is a

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: * Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a let ...

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 associ ...

for eastern

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. The current bishop is

Noel Emmanuel Christian Noel Emmanuel (born 25 December 1960) is a Sri Lankan Tamil priest and the current Roman Catholic Bishop of Trincomalee. Early life and family Emmanuel was born on 25 December 1960 in Trincomalee in eastern Ceylon. After school he joine ...

History

The Diocese of Trincomalee was created on 25 August 1893 from parts of 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 ...

and the Diocese of Jaffna. In the Eastern Province of Sri lanka there were two abandon regions.According to the report of Rev.FR Etinne Sameria ( omi), in 1850, in Trincomalee there were five churches with 1500 Catholics. Every Sunday Sermon delivered in English and Tamil The diocese was renamed Diocese of Trincomalee–Batticaloa on 23 October 1967. On 19 December 1975 parts of the diocese were transferred to newly created Apostolic Prefecture of Anuradhapura. The diocese was renamed Diocese of Trincomalee on 3 July 2012 after parts of the diocese were transferred to newly created Diocese of Batticaloa.

Bishops

References

{{coord, 8.5681, N, 81.2370, E, source:wikidata, display=title Organisations based in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka Religious organizations established in 1893 Trincomalee-Batticaloa