Nicholas Marcus Fernando (6 December 1932 – 10 April 2020) was a Sri Lankan

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

archbishop. Fernando was born in Negombo

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1959. He served as archbishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Colombo The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Colombo () is a Latin metropolitan archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church, whose ecclesiastical province covers all Sri Lanka plus the Maldives (which are within the archbishopric). It depends on th ...

, from 1977 until 2002.Archdiocese of Colombo
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