Roman Catholic Diocese of Kandy
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kandy is a suffragan diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Colombo, but depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The episcopal seat is St. Anthony’s Cathedral, in Kandy. The current bishop is Joseph Vianney Fernando, appointed in 1983.Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 81,293 Catholics on 5,733 km² in 27 parishes and 2 missions with 51 priests, 329 lay religious and 15 seminarians.History
;Apostolic Vicar of Kandy
;Suffragan Bishops of Kandy
- Clemente Pagnani, O.S.B.Silv.
- Bede Beekmeyer, O.S.B.Silv.†
- Bernardo Regno, O.S.B.Silv., stayed on a while as Apostolic Administrator of Kandy, during emeritate as Titular Bishop of Bagai, died 1977
- Leo Nanayakkara, O.S.B.Silv., next Bishop of Badulla
- Appasinghe Paul Perera
- Joseph Vianney Fernando, also President of Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka.
