Thanksgiving Mass to celebrate Archbishop's birthday

The Colombo Archbishop Rt. Rev. Dr. Oswald Gomis celebrates his 75th birthday today with a Thanksgiving Mass at the Chapel of the Archbishop Palace attended by priests, friends and well-wishes.

Archbishop Gomis is the Chancellor of the Colombo University and Head of the Aquinas College of Higher Studies. He is the third Sinhala Archbishop of Colombo Diocese. He became a Bishop at the age of 35 along with Very Rev. Fr. Edmund J. Fernando OMI, consecrating both on July 17, 1968.

Bishop Gomis was the Editor of the Gnanartha Pradeepaya, when the Church announced his name as a new Auxiliary Bishop to the late, His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Cooray OMI.

With the demise of the pioneer Bishop of Anuradhapura, Auxiliary Bishop Gomis was sent to succeed him in 1996 and served there until he succeeded Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando who served the diocese for 25 years.

We wish him ad Multos Annos and the Blessings of the Almighty to continue his service to the Church.