Denomination Roman Catholic Rite Roman Rite Area 10,727 km² Patron saint Saint Joseph | Sui iuris church Latin Church Pope Francis Country Sri Lanka Metropolitan archbishop Malcolm Ranjith | |
Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2012)
1,110,904
12,703 (1.1%) Cathedral Cathedral of St Joseph in Anuradhapura Ecclesiastical province Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Colombo | ||
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Anuradhapura (Lat: Dioecesis Anuradhapurensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Sri Lanka.
Originally erected as the apostolic prefecture of Anuradhapura, the prefecture was created from territory in the Diocese of Jaffna and the Diocese of Trincomalee-Batticaloa.
The prefecture was elevated to a full diocese in 1982, and is a suffragan to the Archdiocese of Colombo.
The current bishop is Norbert Marshall Andradi, appointed in 2003.
Ordinaries
References
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