Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis (born May 21, 1958 Koralawella

Moratuwa

Moratuwa is a city on the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka, near Dehiwela-Mount Lavinia. It is situated on the Galle–Colombo main highway, 18 km south of the capital, Colombo. Moratuwa is surrounded on three sides by water, except in the north of the city, by the Indian Ocean on the west...

, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

) is the current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chilaw

Roman Catholic Diocese of Chilaw

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chilaw is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Sri Lanka.Erected as the Diocese of Galle in 1939, the diocese is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Colombo...

 since 2006.

Mendis was officially ordained a Catholic priest on July 20, 1985. He was appointed a Coadjutor Bishop

Coadjutor bishop

A coadjutor bishop is a bishop in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches who is designated to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese, almost as co-bishop of the diocese...

 of Chilaw on January 17, 2005, and ordained on April 2, 2005.

Bishop Mendis was ordained as the full Bishop of Chilaw on October 19, 2006, succeeded Bishop Frank Marcus Fernando

Frank Marcus Fernando

Frank Marcus Fernando was the Sri Lankan bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chilaw in Sri Lanka. Fernando served as the Bishop of Chilaw from his appointment on December 27, 1972, until his retirement on October 19, 2006. The diocese is based in Chilaw, a coastal city north of Colombo.Frank...

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