Suffragan diocese Kandy, Sri Lanka
Diocese of Kandy
Kandien(sis)
Latin Church
Latin diocese in the central highlands of Sri Lanka, established as an apostolic vicariate on 20 April 1883 from the Diocese of Colombo and promoted to the Diocese of Kandy on 1 September 1886 as a suffragan of the simultaneously elevated Archdiocese of Colombo. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of St. Anthony in Kandy.
On the map
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- Established
- 1886
- Catholics
- 84,830
- Priests
- 62
- Territory
- 5,753 km²
Parishes and churches
29 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- St. Anthony’s CathedralKandy · CathedralView parish
- Blessed Joseph Vass Mission StationKadienlenaView parish
- Fatima ShrinePadiwatteView parish
- Holy Cross ChurchHattonView parish
- Holy Rosary ChurchBogawanthalawaView parish
- Holy Rosary ChurchRagalaView parish
- Infant Jesus’ ChurchBattalgallaView parish
- Sacred Heart ChurchKatugastotaView parish
- Sacred Heart Church’s ChurchRaththotaView parish
- St. Anthony’s ChurchMattakelleView parish
- St. Anthony’s ChurchRotawawaView parish
- St. Anthony’s ChurchWattegamaView parish
- St. Anthony’s Church, BlackpoolNanuoyaView parish
- St. Anthony’s ShrineWahacotteView parish
- St. Joseph’s ChurchGampolaView parish
- St. Joseph’s ChurchMaskeliyaView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchNawalapitiyaView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchNikaweheraView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchPanwilaView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchTawalantanneView parish
- St. Patrick’s ChurchTalawakelleView parish
- St. Theresa’s ChurchPeradeniyaView parish
- St. Thomas’ ChurchMataleView parish
- St. Xavier’s ChurchKadugannawaView parish
- St. Xavier’s ChurchNuwara EliyaView parish
- St.Franicis of Assisi ChurchKawlahenaView parish
- St.Mary’s ChurchAmpitiyaView parish
- St.Mary’s ChurchGatambeView parish
- St.Paul the Hermit ChurchDiganaView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Valence Mendis
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The cathedral
Cathedral of St. Anthony, Kandy stands in Kandy, 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.
History
Within the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Colombo, which covers all Sri Lanka, sits the suffragan Diocese of Kandy (Lat: Dioecesis Kandiensis) of the Latin Church, though it depends on the missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its episcopal seat is St. Anthony's Cathedral in Kandy. Valence Mendis, appointed in 2021, is the current bishop.