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The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Colombo ((ラテン語:Archidioecesis Columbensis in Taprobane)) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Sri Lanka. It was erected as the Diocese of Ceylon from Diocese of Cochin by Pope Gregory XVI on December 3, 1834, and renamed as the Diocese of Colombo on February 17, 1845. Pope Leo XIII elevated it to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese on September 1, 1886, with the suffragan sees of Anuradhapura, Badulla, Chilaw, Galle, Jaffna, Kandy, Kurunegala, Mannar, Ratnapura, and Trincomalee-Batticaloa. Its name was changed by Pope Pius XII to the Archdiocese of Colombo in Ceylon on December 6, 1944, but was returned to simply the Archdiocese of Colombo on May 22, 1972 by Pope Paul VI. It is the only archdiocese in Sri Lanka. The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is St. Lucia’s Cathedral; it also contains the Basilica of Our Lady of Lanka in Tewatta and St. Anthony's National Shrine in Kochchikade. The current Archbishop of Colombo, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on 16 June 2009, is Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith. He is assisted in this role by the auxiliary bishops. ==List of bishops and archbishops of Colombo== *Hilarion Silani (1863 - 1879) *Clemente Pagnani, OSB (1879 - 1883) *Christophe-Etienne Bonjean, OMI (1883 - 1892) *André-Théophile Mélizan, OMI (1893 - 1905) *Antoine Coudert, OMI (1905 - 1929) *Pierre-Guillaume Marque, OMI (1929 - 1937) *Jean-Marie Masson, OMI (1938 - 1947) *Thomas Cooray, OMI (1947 - 1976) *Nicholas Fernando (1977 - 2002) *Oswald Gomis (2002 - 2009) *Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don (2009–present) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Colombo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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