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The Church of Ceylon is the Anglican Church in Sri Lanka, as an extraprovincial diocese of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It was established with the appointment of its first Bishop, James Chapman in 1845 as the Bishop of Colombo. Until 1950 it consisted only of the Diocese of Colombo but a second diocese was established at Kurunegala in that year. ==The Dioceses of Colombo and Kurunegala== The first services were held on the island in 1796 and missionaries were sent to Ceylon to begin work in 1818.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.anglicancommunion.org/tour/province.cfm?ID=Y1 )〕 The Church now has two dioceses, one in Colombo (covering the Western, Southern, Eastern, Northern and Uva provinces and Ratnapura, Nuwara Eliya and Puttalam districts) and the other in Kurunegala (covering the North-Central province and Kurunegala, Kandy, Matale and Kegalla, Anuradapura, Polonnaruwa, districts). The Diocese of Colombo was founded in 1845 and the Diocese of Kurunegala in 1950.〔 The Bishop of Calcutta was the Metropolitan Bishop of India and Ceylon from 10 October 1835. In 1930 Ceylon was included in the Church of India, Burma and Ceylon (from 1948 the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma, and Ceylon) until 1970. In 1970, the Church of the Province of Myanmar, the Church of Ceylon and the Church of Pakistan were separated from the province of Calcutta. There has been movement for the amalgamation of traditional Protestant Churches (including Church of Ceylon, Methodist Church, Lanka Baptist Sangamaya, Salvation Army, Presbyterian Church of Sri Lanka and the Dutch Reformed Church in Sri Lanka) into one body, namely the Church of Sri Lanka. The Bishop of Colombo, Dhiloraj Canagasabey has under him four Archdeacons for Colombo, Galle, Jaffna and Upcountry and East. The Bishop of Kurunegala, Shantha Francis has one Archdeacon, in Kandy. The Church of Ceylon with around 50,000 members,〔(World council of Churches )〕 is the second largest group of Christians in Sri Lanka, the Roman Catholic Church with 1,600,000 being the largest. 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「Church of Ceylon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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