The Mahanayake of the Sri Lanka Ramanna Sect, the Most Venerable Napane Pemasiri Thero has passed away at the age of 98, on Tuesday (17).

The Most Venerable Thero breathed his last while receiving treatment at the Peradeniya Teaching Hospital.

The late Most Venerable Thero was born on the 02nd of January 1923 in Napana, Patha-Dumbara, and was ordained on the 08th of July 1933 at the Udumbararamaya in Hurikaduwa.