Ariyavongsagatanana (Amborn Ambaro)
Somdet Phra Ariyavongsagatanana IX Somdet Phra Saṅgharāja Sakalamahāsaṅghapariṇāyaka | |
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สมเด็จพระอริยวงศาคตญาณ | |
Ariyavongsagatanana IX in 2017 | |
| 20th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand | |
| Assumed office 7 February 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Vajirañāṇasaṃvara |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Amborn Prasatthapong 26 June 1927 |
| Nationality | Thai |
| Other names | Amborn Ambaro |
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| Religious life | |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| Temple | Wat Ratchabophit |
| Order | Dhammayuttika Nikaya |
| School | Theravada |
| Dharma names | Ambaro |
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Somdet Phra Ariyavangsagatayana IX (Thai: สมเด็จพระอริยวงศาคตญาณ; 26 June 1927), born Amborn Prasatthapong (Thai: อัมพร ประสัตถพงศ์), is the current Supreme Patriarch of Thailand and Superior General of the Dhammayut Order. Ordained as a bhikkhu in 1948 with the Dhamma name of Ambaro (Thai: อมฺพโร). In 2008 he was appointed abbot of Wat Ratchabophit in Bangkok. In 2017, he was appointed Supreme Patriarch by King Vajiralongkorn, succeeding Vajirañāṇasaṃvara who died in 2013.