ASIA/SRI LANKA – Appointment of the New Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies

Vatican City – On March 31, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization , has appointed, Father Nayagam Roy Clarence, of the Diocese of Kandy, as Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Sri Lanka, for a five-year period .
The new Director of the PMS was born in 1977 and ordained in 2006. He obtained a Bachelor of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Theology in Rome, and subsequently obtained an advanced master’s degree in Theology and Religious Studies from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium .
He was assistant parish priest in Nawalapitiya and at Kandy Cathedral and parish priest in Gampola , Ampitiya and Ragala .
He has held the following pastoral roles: Diocesan Director of the Apostolate of Migrants , of the Laity and Family, and of Interreligious Dialogue , Director of the National Catholic Commission for the Laity , Chaplain for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul , Chaplain for Sri Lankan Migrants in the United Arab Emirates , and Lecturer at the Ampitiya National Seminary in Kandy .

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