The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chilaw (Lat: ''Dioecesis Chilavensis'') 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 Rite
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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in
Sri Lanka.
Erected as the Diocese of Galle in 1939, 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 ...
. In 1995, part of the diocese was split off to form the
Diocese of Kurunegala.
The current bishop is Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis, appointed in 2006.
Diocese of Chilaw
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Ordinaries
* Louis Perera, O.M.I. † (5 Jan 1939 Appointed - 8 Apr 1939 Died)
*Edmund Peiris
Gate Mudaliyar Edmund Peiris, JP, UM was a Ceylonese colonial-era headman and philanthropist. He was the Mudaliyar of Kalutara and was appointed as a Mudaliyar of the Governor's Gate.
His father was Mudaliyar Romanis Peiris, Customs Mudaliyar. ...
, O.M.I. † (12 Jan 1940 Appointed - 27 Dec 1972 Resigned)
*Frank Marcus Fernando
Frank Marcus Fernando ( Sinhala: ෆ්රෑන්ක් මාකස් ප්රනාන්දු) (October 19, 1931 – August 24, 2009) was the Sri Lankan bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chilaw in Sri Lanka. Fernando served as ...
, † (27 Dec 1972 Succeeded - 19 Oct 2006 Retired)
* Valence Mendis, (19 Oct 2006 Succeeded - 9 Oct 2021 Appointed, Bishop of Kandy)
See also
*Roman Catholicism in Sri Lanka
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome. The country comes under the province of Colombo and is made up of 12 dioceses including one archdiocese. There are appr ...
References
External links
Roman Catholic dioceses in Sri Lanka, Chilaw
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