St. Sylvester's College

st sylvester's college, kandy (sinhalese: ශාන්ත සිල්වෙස්තර විද්යාලය, මහනුවර; tamil: புனித சில்வெஸ்டர் கல்லூரி, கண்டி) (founded in 1940) is a public boys' school located in the middle of kandy city which offers primary and secondary education for boys in sri lanka. college is controlled by the central provincial council. it is a school with around 150 teaching staff and around 3,000 students. st. sylvester’s began as a separate institution on 1 november 1940 with very rev. fr. d. robert. perera o.s.b. as the principal. the college owed its inception to the foresight of his lordship bishop bernardo regno o.s.b. and abbot weerasinghe, the heads of the sylvestro-benedictine congregation. they felt that a good catholic school in kandy town was a prime need, once st. anthony’s had been completely shifted to its home on the banks of the mahaweli at katugastota. rev father robert was given the tremendous task of rearing the new that had just been born. st. sylvester’s had made name for itsel