The Anglican Bishop of Colombo is the ecclesiastical head of the

Anglican Diocese of Colombo The Diocese of Colombo ( Anglican Church of Ceylon) is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The diocesan bishop's seat is Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour. The current bishop of Colombo is Dushantha Lakshman Rodrigo. The Diocese of Colombo covers ...

, a

diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, 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 Roman province, pro ...

in the

Church of Ceylon The Church of Ceylon ( si, ලංකා සභාව) is the Anglican Church in Sri Lanka. It is an extra-provincial jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who serves as its Metropolitan. It was established in 1845 with the appointment ...

which is part of the

Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other ...

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was founded in 1845, as the diocese of the

Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain ...

Ceylon 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 ...

List of bishops

Footnotes

Publications

One hundred years in Ceylon, or, The centenary volume of the Church Missionary Society in Ceylon, 1818-1918 (1922) Author: Balding, John William
Madras: Printed at the Diocesan Press.
The Church of Ceylon - her faith and mission
Published in 1945, Printed at the Daily News Press by Bernard de Silva for the Church of Ceylon.
The Church of Ceylon: A history, 1945-1995
Editor: Medis, Frederick Published for the Diocese of Colombo.

External links

Official Web Site of Church of Ceylon, Diocese of Colombo

The Church of Ceylon (Anglican Communion)

Anglican Church of Ceylon News

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20130208075108/http://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/regions/asia/sri-lanka/church-of-ceylon.html The Church of Ceylon - World Council of Churches website {{DEFAULTSORT:Bishop of Colombo 1845 establishments in Ceylon