Talk:Church of Ceylon

Personal Ordinariate

Apart from the Traditional Anglican Communion, the article should really consider verifying whether groups within the Church of Ceylon have ever sought a similar canonical structure to the proposed personal ordinariates. ADM (talk) 18:08, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

No historical background, nothing at all about education

The maritime provinces of Ceylon became a British possession in 1796 and a Crown Colony in 1798. The first Anglican clergyman arrived on the island in 1799. The article needs to provide some historical background concerning relevant events before the establishment of the Diocese of Colombo in 1845. There was an Archdeaconate earlier; but was Ceylon a part of the Diocese of Calcutta, or that of Madras? The article does not tell us.

An even bigger – indeed, gaping – lacuna in this article is the absence of any reference at all to the Anglican role in formal education, over which the church exercised an effective monopoly of control between 1798 and 1834, when this was broken by the formation of a School Commission on which sat members of the colonial civil service and judiciary as well as Anglican clerics. Even then, the Commission (under the notorious Archdeacon Glenie, who arguably deserves a Wikipedia page of his own) continued to be Anglican-dominated until it was dissolved in 1837 and replaced by one in which Roman Catholics, Baptists and Wesleyans were also represented. Indeed, the formation of an independent diocese of Colombo in 1845 was, it may be argued, a measure taken to stem the declining influence of the Anglican church in the contemporary government and society of colonial Ceylon.

The Anglican church has a long and eventful, if not always glorious, record in Sri Lanka. This article does not even begin to address it. It seems to be written from a very restricted historical and doctrinal perspective, and does no justice at all to the fact that, for 81 years, the Church of England was the State religion of Ceylon, with all the power, influence and privilege attendant on that position, and that even after its disestablishment in 1880 it continued to play a central part in the life of the country. In particular, the influence of the church on Ceylonese history and society through the three elite boys' it ran (and in the case of two of them, still runs) needs to be taken into account. From these schools were drawn nearly the entirety of the Ceylonese and Sri Lankan ruling and professional elite, from that day almost to this. The men who shaped Ceylon’s history were in turn shaped by the Anglican Church.

The history of the Anglican Church of Ceylon deserves considerably better than it has received here. palmyrah (talk) 07:02, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Have added some information (from the Diocese of Calcutta article); the see of Madras was established in 1835 but it is not clear what the diocesan boundaries were then.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 12:51, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

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