Diocese of Badulla, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Badulla / Badullan(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Colombo

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1972.12.18: Established as Diocese of Badulla / Badullan(us) (Latin) (from Diocese of Kandy and became suffragan of Colombo)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2023.01.30 – ...):

Bishop Echchampulle Arachchige Jude Nishanta Silva (55)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Badulla (Roman Rite)

Bishop Echchampulle Arachchige Jude Nishanta Silva (55)
(2023.01.30 – ...)

Bishop of Badulla (Sri Lanka)

Born:	1970.05.05 (Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)
Ordained Priest:	2001.10.02
Consecrated Bishop:	2023.04.22

Priest of Badulla (Sri Lanka) (2001.10.02 – 2023.01.30)

Bishop of Badulla (Sri Lanka) (2023.01.30 – ...)

Bishop Julian Winston Sebastian Fernando, S.S.S. (80)
(1997.03.03 – 2023.01.30)

Bishop emeritus of Badulla (Sri Lanka)

Begin little

Born:	1945.01.16 (Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)
Ordained Priest:	1975.09.06
Consecrated Bishop:	1997.06.14

Bishop of Badulla (Sri Lanka) (1997.03.03 – 2023.01.30)

President of Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka (2017.02.21 – 2022.06.10)

Bishop Edmund Joseph Fernando, O.M.I.
(1983.12.05 – 1997.03.03)

Born:	1921.03.25 (Pitipana, Sri Lanka)
Ordained Priest:	1949.08.06
Consecrated Bishop:	1968.07.17
Died:	2004.07.16 († 83)

Titular Bishop of Igilgili (1968.04.09 – 1983.12.05)

Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo (Sri Lanka) (1968.04.09 – 1983.12.05)

Bishop of Badulla (Sri Lanka) (1983.12.05 – 1997.03.03)

Bishop Leo Nanayakkara, O.S.B. Silv.
(1972.12.18 – 1982.05.28)

Born:	1917.11.26 (Polgahawela, Sri Lanka)
Ordained Priest:	1950.02.10
Consecrated Bishop:	1959.10.03
Died:	1982.05.28 († 64)

Bishop of Kandy (Sri Lanka) (1959.07.02 – 1972.12.18)

Bishop of Badulla (Sri Lanka) (1972.12.18 – 1982.05.28)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Badulla, Uva
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Ratnapura (↙), Kandy (↖), Batticaloa (↗), Galle (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 8,500 km²

Population: 18,540 Catholics (1.2% of 1,564,160 total)

Pastoral Centres: 21 parishes, 5 missions

Personnel: 40 priests (26 diocesan, 14 religious), 101 religious (17 brothers, 84 sisters), 7 seminarians