Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India information

The Jaffna Diocese is the Church of South India diocese for northern Sri Lanka. The current bishop (known as the Bishop of Jaffna or the Bishop of the...

Jaffna Diocese may refer to: Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India Roman Catholic Diocese of Jaffna This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

Presbyterians); the then 4 Anglican dioceses of South India and one in Sri Lanka; and the South Indian District of the Methodist church. The Church of South India is...

1848. It is a charitable hospital run by Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India (JDCSI). This hospital was the first medical school in Ceylon (now Sri...

Lanka and the Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka (formerly the Dutch Reformed Church) and the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India into one...

The University of Jaffna (Sinhala: යාපනය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය, Yāpanaya Wiśwawidyālaya; Tamil: யாழ்ப்பாணப் பல்கலைக்கழகம், romanized: Yāḻppāṇap Palkalaikkaḻakam;...

appealed to the Indian consul in Jaffna to upgrade Palaly Airport. The appeal was forwarded to the Government of India, and after approval by the Prime Minister...

of Sri Lanka. It is home to the capital city of the province, Jaffna, and comprises much of the former land mass of the medieval Jaffna Kingdom. The peninsula...

Jaffna (Tamil: யாழ்ப்பாணம், romanized: Yāḻppāṇam, IPA: [jaːɻpːaːɳɐm]; Sinhala: යාපනය, romanized: Yāpanaya, IPA: [jaːpənəjə]) is the capital city of the...

Jaffna District (Tamil: யாழ்ப்பாணம் மாவட்டம் Yāḻppāṇam Māvaṭṭam; Sinhala: යාපනය දිස්ත්‍රික්කය yāpanaya distrikkaya) is one of the 25 districts of Sri...

Historical pictures of American missions in Ceylon Church of South India – Jaffna Diocese Archived 2007-11-02 at the Wayback Machine 150 years of Udupiddy American...

an island off the coast of Jaffna peninsula in northern Sri Lanka, located approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of the city of Jaffna. Known as Rotterdam...

by the pre-colonial Jaffna kingdom. The district then came under Portuguese, Dutch and British control. In 1815 the British gained control of the entire...

The district, which was then part of Jaffna District, was part of the Tamil administration. In 1833, in accordance with the recommendations of the Colebrooke-Cameron...

universities. The late Sabapathy Kulendran, the first bishop of the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India (JDCSI) observed that the seminary brought...

together with Jaffna District and Vanni District, formed the new Northern Province. At the time that Ceylon gained independence, Mannar was one of the three districts...

part of the Rajarata historical region. Vavuniya District was thereafter ruled by Vanniar Chieftains who paid tribute to the pre-colonial Jaffna kingdom...

(iranai) and pond (madu). In the 1940s a severe drought in the Jaffna islands resulted in large numbers of people migrating to the Kilinochchi area where they...

used as hymns by the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India. He was secretary of the Jaffna Council of the South United Church from 1915 till his...