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Bishop Mohottige Don Nishantha Sagara Jayamanne

Bishop of Anuradhapura

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Born
Jun 25, 1970 Bopitiya, Central Province, Sri Lanka
Nationality
Sri Lanka
Ordained priest
May 13, 2000
Ordained bishop
Feb 28, 2026 Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
Appointed
Feb 28, 2026
Principal consecrator
Norbert Marshall Andradi
Co-consecrators
Julian Winston Sebastian Fernando Raymond Kingsley Wickramasinghe

Bishop Mohottige Don Nishantha Sagara Jayamanne, S.S.S., was born on 25 June 1970 in Bopitiya, in the metropolitan archdiocese of Colombo. After studying philosophy and theology at the Our Lady of Lanka National Seminary in Ampitiya, Kandy, he was awarded a licentiate in philosophy at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas ( Angelicum ), Rome. He was ordained a priest on 13 May 2000. He has held the following offices: deputy parish priest of Saint Thomas in Matale (2000-2001), assistant to the Master of Novices (2001-2003) and Master of Novices (2004-2009) in Hanwella, deputy parish priest of Saint Philip Neri (2009-2010), bursar of the community of Pettah (2013-2019), and director of the Eymard Campbell House for Spiritual Exercises in Hanwella (2019-2021). Since 2013 he has served as professor of philosophy at Our Lady of Lanka National Seminary in Kandy; since 2021, director of the Scholasticate of his religious congregation in Ampitiya, Kandy; and since 2022, provincial vicar.