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Patron Saints: Saint Lawrence of Rome, Saint Thomas

Saints: 1 Saint

Continent: South and East Asia

Capital: Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte

Area: 64,630 km²

Population: 22,409,381

Former Name: Ceylon

Neighbouring Countries: ↙ Maldives , ↖ India

Religions: Buddhist (official) 70.2%, Hindu 12.6%, Muslim 9.7%, Roman Catholic 6.1%, other Christian 1.3%, other 0.05%

Languages: Sinhala (official and national language) 74%, Tamil (official and national language) 18%, other 8%

Ethnic Groups: Sinhalese 74.9%, Sri Lankan Tamil 11.2%, Sri Lankan Moors 9.2%, Indian Tamil 4.2%, other 0.5%

Area: 65,610 km²

Catholic Population: 1,676,000 Catholics (7.6% of 22,156,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 504 parishes, 705 mission stations (6 with resident priest, 699 without resident priest), 26 other centres

Clergy: 21 bishops (11 diocesan, 10 titular), 1,560 priests (982 diocesan, 578 religious), 3 permanent deacons (1 diocesan, 2 religious)

Non-Clergy: 2,730 religious (177 brothers, 2,553 sisters), 31 members of secular institutes (6 brothers, 25 sisters), 539 major seminarians, 207 missionaries, 9,881 catechists