Diocese of Batticaloa
Batticaloaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Latin diocese on the east coast of Sri Lanka, created on 3 July 2012 from the Diocese of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Colombo. Its cathedral is St. Mary's Cathedral in Batticaloa; the see is currently administered by Apostolic Administrator Anton Ranjith Pillainayagam following Bishop Joseph Ponniah's tenure (2012-2024).
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 July 2012
- Latin
- Batticaloaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000857
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 55,225
- Population
- 1,199,966
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 4.6%
- Priests
- 60
- Catholics per priest
- 920
- Extent
- 7,269 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 7.6
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
The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.
The cathedral
St. Mary's Cathedral, Batticaloa stands in Batticaloa, 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 BadullaBadulla
- 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
South-eastern Sri Lanka is served by the Diocese of Batticaloa (Latin: Dioecesis Batticaloaensis, Tamil: மட்டக்களப்பு மறைமாவட்டம்), a jurisdiction of the Latin Catholic Church.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 43, Batticaloa 30000, Sri Lanka
- Telephone
- [065]2222.723; fax 2224.667
- geojeeva06@gmail.com
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.