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Current status. The Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka currently has 31 churches and over 5,000 adherents. The church office is located in Galle Road, Colombo. [6] [7] The Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka owns several historical church buildings, e.g. in Kalpitiya, Matara and Galle .
Protestantism. 290,967 persons in Sri Lanka (1.43%) are Protestants as per the 2012 census. [ 17] The Ceylon Pentecostal Mission has about 16,500 church members and 70 churches (faith homes) in Sri Lanka. About 2000 people (1998) are affiliated with congregations belonging to the Baptist World Alliance.
The Methodist Church, known for some noted educators, set up many schools in Sri Lanka, including: Richmond College, was started in 1814 as The Galle School – the first Wesleyan Methodist school in Sri Lanka and Asia, and was converted to a High School in 1876 and re-named Richmond College in 1882;
The Dutch Reformed Church is currently known as the Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka. The Church has several locations throughout the Colombo area. Wolvendaal Church is the only Dutch Church on the island that has been continually in use, with in 2018 services in Tamil, Sinhalese and English every Sunday. A similar Dutch Reformed Church ...
Catholic Church in Sri Lanka ... The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sri Lanka (2 C, 1 P) P. Protestantism in Sri Lanka ... Code of Conduct ...
Adjoining the church is a two-storey manse built in 1907, where the church's pastor resides. In 1948, Sri Lanka won independence from the British rule and in the following decades, most of the British and Scottish community in the country returned home to the United Kingdom, which drastically reduced the church's traditional European congregation.
The Christian Reformed Church in Sri Lanka (formerly known as the Dutch Reformed Church in Sri Lanka), the oldest Protestant church on the island.. According to the 2012 census, 6% of the population of Sri Lanka was Christian; of these, one in ten was Protestant, showing that there were approximately six Protestants for every 1,000 Sri Lankans.
St. Luke's Church Borella in Colombo. St. Paul's Church in Kandy, diocese of Kurunegala. The Church of Ceylon ( Sinhala: ලංකා සභාව, romanized: laṁkā sabhāva) is the Anglican Church in Sri Lanka. It is an extraprovincial jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who serves as its Metropolitan. [2]