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Good Shepherd Convent, Kotahena is a leading Catholic girls' school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Located in the neighbourhood of Kotahena, the convent school educates girls from Kindergarten to age 19. The convent includes an auditorium, libraries, ICT and Science laboratories, Basketball and Netball courts and gyms.
Roman Catholic churches in Sri Lanka (7 C, 10 P) D. Roman Catholic dioceses in Sri Lanka (4 C, 9 P) M. Roman Catholic missionaries in Sri Lanka (3 P) S.
Roman Catholic Diocese of Ratnapura. Categories: Roman Catholic dioceses in Asia. Catholic Church in Sri Lanka. Roman Catholic dioceses by country. Religious organisations based in Sri Lanka. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated ISIS -related terrorist suicide bombings. Later that day, two smaller explosions occurred at a housing complex in Dematagoda and a guest house in Dehiwala.
Roman Catholic. Cathedrals of the Roman Catholic Church in Sri Lanka:. St. Joseph's Cathedral, Anuradhapura St. Mary's Cathedral, Badulla St. Mary's Cathedral, Batticaloa; St. Mary's Cathedral, Chilaw
Joseph Vaz is the first saint to have been canonised in Sri Lanka, the first saint of Sri Lanka (having died there) and first originally from the area of Goa, India. [17] [21] The canonization of Joseph Vaz was celebrated at the St Joseph Vaz Shrine, Mudipu, Mangalore , during 14–16 January 2015, as he was the first priest from the Konkan ...
Mannar martyrs. In 1544, during the Crisis of the Sixteenth Century (1521–1597) in the Jaffna Kingdom, Cankili I killed 600 Catholic converts. Portuguese missionaries attributed the baptism, martyrdom and intercession of the Mannar Martyrs for the rapid conversion and growth of Catholicism in Sri Lanka. In a letter found in the Archives of ...
2 February 1936. Completed. 1946. The St. Sebastian's Church, Negombo, also known as St. Sebastian's Church, Wellaweediya, is a Roman Catholic church in Negombo, in Sri Lanka. [1] It is architecturally based on the Reims Cathedral in France and is built in Gothic Revival style. [2] Saint Sebastian is the patron saint of the city of Negombo.