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The Church Missionary Society undertook a new translation, known as the Cotta version, in 1833. [1]: 49 The Baptist missionaries produced their own translation, which appeared in print between 1859 and 1876. [1]: 52 To match the Revised Version of the Bible, the Sinhalese translation was revised between 1895 and 1910. [2]
In 1979, the church's Genealogical Society of Utah started microfilming Sri Lanka's vital records. The LDS Church and the Rotary Club in Columbo worked together to start a program to teach English as a second language in February 1982. Several senior couples served in Sri Lanka beginning in the late 1970s.
A teacher training college was established in 1914 in Peradeniya by Alexander G. Fraser, principal of Trinity College, Kandy. The Anglican schools in Sri Lanka provide education in English, Sinhala and Tamil languages giving prominence to the English Language.
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; [9]
Christ Church Warleigh is an Anglican church in Sri Lanka built during the 19th century by the British. It is administered by the Church of Ceylon . [ 1 ] The church is regarded as one of the most prominent and oldest Anglican churches in Sri Lanka and is a tourist destination. [ 2 ]
Burma and Bangladesh formed their own church. Sri Lanka therefore became extraprovincial within the Anglican Communion under the metropolitical authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1946, the Diocese of Kurunegala was formed out of the diocese of Colombo to include parts of the North-Western, North-Central and Central Provinces of Sri ...
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.
The Ceylon Evangelical Lutheran Church is a confessional Lutheran church in Sri Lanka, and the only Lutheran denomination registered with the Sri Lankan government. [21] The church consists of more than a dozen congregations or mission stations, mainly concentrated in the tea plantation regions of Nuwara Eliya , Central Province.