Fr. Vincent George Dissanayake
Curriculum Vitae
Personal
Title : Priest
Full Name : Vincent George Dissanayake
Date of Birth : 13-12-1961
Sex : Male
Nationality : Srilankan
Parish : Shrine of Our Lady of Rosary, Periyapullumalai.
Diocese : Trincomalee
Early Education : BT/Periyapullumalai Sinhala Vidyalaya.
Secondary Education : T/Sinhala MahaVidyalaya Trincomalee
Minor Seminary : 1977-1981. Trincoamlee.
Name of University Degree Obtained Specialization Year
St Francis Xavier’s Seminary Diploma in Philosophy Indian Philosophy 1981
,Jaffna,Sri-Lanka
Affiliated to the Pontifical
University of Urbaniana Rome
National Seminary of Bachelor of Theology Scripture 1989
Our Lady of Lanka –
Affiliated to the Pontifical
University of Urbaniana Rome
Employment
Ø Advisor Interpreter Co-ordinator.Sri- Lanka Monitoring Mission 2001-2005
Norwegian Peace Process in Sri- Lanka
Professional Qualifications
Ø Co-ordinator Catholic Youth Apostolate 1994-2003
Ø Co-director, Director, Sinhala Stream Catechetical, Biblical & Liturgical.
Ø Co-ordinator Catholic Charismatic.Apostolate, Trincomalee 1995-2003 & September 2010- to date.
Ø Tamil Language 1981-1982 UnderPandith Gnanapragasam. Jaffna
Ø Tamil Language 1994-1985 UnderVidhuvan F.X. Nadarajah. Batticaloa
Ø Tamil language 2004-2005 Under Pulavar X.W. Ariyanayaham. Trincomalee
Ø Sinhala language 2007-2008 Under Rev Kapugolave Anandha KiththiThero. Trincomalee
Other Professional Qualifications
Ø Successfully completed four week course on “Catechetics” conducted by the National Biblical, Catechetical, Liturgical Centre,(NBCLC). Bangalore, India, in 1994.
Ø Seminar Small Christian communities Bangkok 2010
Ø Sworn Government Translator Sinhala Tamil English 2012 By Ministry of Justice .(I am the only Catholic priest in the history of Sri- Lanka to get through the examinationof tri-lingual translation conducted by the ministry of Justic )
Ø Graduated in Judaism In Israel
Work Experience
Ø Teacher at center for religious Education from 1994 — 2012
Other Professional Positions.
Ø Member of Visiting committee Of Prisons .Ministry of Justice
Ø President , Rotary Club , Trincomalee 1998/1999.
Ø Justice of Peace (whole Island) 2003
Ø Co-ordinator Interpreter Sri-Lanka Monitoring mission 2011-2005.(Norwegian)
Ø Secretary Citizens’ Committee Thirukkovil 1990-1992.
Ø Secretary Citizens’ Committee Trincomalee 2003-2009.
Ø Secretary , Co-ordinator Intor Religious Peace Foundations 1997-2012.
Ø Patron of District of Trincomalee Human Right organizations of Justice of Peace
Ø Patron Peace Committee, Trincomalee.
Ø Advisor Civil Defense Committee, Trincomalee.
Workshops & Seminars Participated
Ø Catecatical ,Bangalor .India
Ø Interreligious Peace Foundation – Colombo
Ø President Elect Seminar –Rotary
Ø Interreligious Organization Colombo
Ø Organization of Co-existence Colombo
Ø AsIPA Bangkok, Thailand 2010
Ø Judaism –Israel
Awards & Titles
Ø JUSTICE OF PEACE (WHOLE ISLAND) – Government of Sri-Lanka 2003
Ø SAMAMANYA (Great Person of Peace) Hunan Rights Organization of Sri- Lanka 2007
Ø DESHABANDU 2008
Ø PHF (Paul Harry Fellow) Rotary International 2009
Ø DESHAMANYA – (Honorary Doctorate) 2011 For the first time in the history of Sri- Lanka this this highest award is given to a Catholic priest by supreme Buddhist council Asgiriya Malwatte Other chapters and state of Sri-Lanka
Ø DESHA MANAVA HITHAISHI (Lover of Humanity ) 2011
Ø Bishop’s Cathedral Recognition Award 2012
Ø Doctor of Divinity (Honorary causa )Academy of Universal Global Peace AUGP India
Ø Russell Berrie Fellowship -Scholarship for for Interreligious and Ecumenical Studies in Rome- 2012
Publications.
Ø Nagene HiraMahaMera (The Rock of East) Biography of Bishop Kingsley in Sinhala
Ø Sudusabaye Gihiya (Laity in the Church) in Sinhala
Ø Maa Sith Gath Paulu.(Paul who Touch My Heart) in Sinhala
Ø Our Lady of Guadalupe who attracted me in Tamil.
Invited Guest & Lectures
National Youth Service Council
National Pastoral convention
Interreligious Peace Foundation
Bagavan Sri Sai Baba Organization
Diocesan commission of Interreligious
Diocesan commission of Ecumenism
Diocesan Pastoral council
Jayasumanaramaya Buddhist Temple
Representative of Catholic Church at WCC Geneva 2012
Experience
Ø Parish Priest, Thirukkovil August 1989-1992.
Ø Parish Priest , Valaichchenai – Kalkudah 1992.1994 May
Ø Parish Priest Shrine of Our Lady Guadalupe, Trincomalee. June 1994- October 2003.
Ø Administrator Andankulam Mission, Trincomalee 1996 -2005, 2006-2007.
Ø Administrator China Bay May 2006- March 2007
Ø Canon of Cathedral 2003 –Sept.2012
Ø Studies at Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Rome 2012