Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Right Reverend |
Jabez Jebasir Gnanapragasam | |
Bishop of Colombo | |
Church: | Anglican Church of Ceylon |
See: | Anglican Diocese of Colombo |
Term: | 1987–1992 |
Successor: | Kenneth Michael James Fernando |
Birth Date: | 30 July 1924 |
Birth Place: | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Death Place: | Nugegoda, Sri Lanka |
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Jabez Jebasir Gnanapragasam (30 July 1924 – 1 November 1997) was the 12th Anglican Bishop of Colombo,[1] Sri Lanka. [2] He was educated at Trinity College, Kandy, read History at University of Ceylon and Theology at Bishop's College, Calcutta. He was married to Grace (24 February 1934 – 2 October 2019) from 1953 until his death in November 1997.[3] His brother, Emmanuel was also an Anglican priest.