Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Diocese of Jaffna is a Roman Catholic diocese in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, that dates back as far as the time of St. Francis Xavier. The current bishop is Thomas Savundaranayagam. In 1548 St. Francis visited Mannar and came to Jaffna to persuade the king to cease his persecutions against the Christians. In 1580, under the protection of the Portuguese, the first Catholic church was built at Jaffna. The whole peninsula having surrendered in 1591 to Andre Furtado de Mendonca, almost the entire population embraced Christianity. When the fort of Jaffna capitulated to the Dutch in 1658 there were in the peninsula 50 priests, 1 Jesuit college, 1 Franciscan and 1 Dominican convent, and 14 churches.

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