The Right Reverend David Jeyaratnam Ambalavanar was a Sri Lankan Tamil priest and the Church of South India Bishop of Jaffna.
[1] After graduating in 1955 Ambalavanar served as minister in the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India.
[1] He became the second Church of South India Bishop of Jaffna on 30 June 1971.
[2] Ambalavanar was a strong advocate of the civilian victims of the country's civil war.
In 1979 he made to receive houses for difficult areas in Wanni such as Akkarayankulam, Vsuvamadu, Murikandy, Puthumurippu: these are the places of his work.