Education
Born to Sir Wilfred and Lady Evelyn de Soysa, he was educated at Royal College, Colombo and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford obtaining Second Class Honours in Theology.
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Thereafter he was trained for the Priesthood at Cuddesdon College and was ordained in 1934 at Street Paul"s Cathedral. After working in England for a short period, he returned to Ceylon to serve in Kandy and Moratuwa. He was the Principal of the Colombo Divinity School and was made the Archdeacon of Colombo in 1955.
In 1964 he became the first Ceylonese Bishop of Colombo and was one of only two Bishops of Colombo to be elected uncontested.
He played a very important role in the Church Union and the Ecumenical Movement. In fact, his work in this area, was so well recognised that he was part of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Anglican Roman Catholic conversations.
He was instrumental in the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour. He died before its completion in 1971 and was interred at the Cathedral.
