Diocese of Badulla
Badullan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Badulla, Sri Lanka
Latin diocese in the Uva region of Sri Lanka, erected in 1972 from territory of the Diocese of Kandy and suffragan of the Archdiocese of Colombo. Its cathedral is St. Mary's Cathedral in Badulla.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 December 1972
- Latin
- Badullan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001000778
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 18,635
- Population
- 1,724,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 1.1%
- Priests
- 40
- Catholics per priest
- 466
- Extent
- 9,349 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.0
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Jude Nishanta Silva
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St. Mary's Cathedral, Badulla stands in Badulla, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Colombo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Colombo.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AnuradhapuraAnuradhapura
- Diocese of BatticaloaBatticaloa
- Diocese of ChilawChilaw
- Diocese of GalleGalle
- Diocese of JaffnaJaffna
- Diocese of KandyKandy
- Diocese of KurunegalaKurunegala
- Diocese of MannarMannar
- Diocese of RatnapuraRatnapura
- Diocese of TrincomaleeTrincomalee
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Formed in 1972 from territory of the Diocese of Kandy, the Diocese of Badulla (Lat: Dioecesis Badullana) is a Latin Church jurisdiction in Sri Lanka, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Colombo. St. Mary's church serves as its cathedral. Echchampulle Arachchige Jude Nishanta Silva, named in January 2023, is the present bishop.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, Rockhill, Spring Valley Road, 90000 Badulla, Sri Lanka
- Telephone
- [055]222.2079; fax 222.9241
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.