Ariyavongsagatanana (Amborn Ambaro)

Somdet Phra
Ariyavongsagatanana IX
Somdet Phra Saṅgharāja Sakalamahāsaṅghapariṇāyaka
สมเด็จพระอริยวงศาคตญาณ
Somdet Phra Ariyavongsagatanana in 2017
20th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand
Assumed office
7 February 2017
Preceded byVajirañāṇasaṃvara
Personal
Born
Amborn Prasatthapong

(1927-06-26) 26 June 1927 (age 97)
ReligionBuddhism
NationalityThai
SchoolTheravada
Other namesAmborn Ambaro
Dharma namesAmbaro
Signature
Organization
TempleWat Ratchabophit
OrderDhammayuttika Nikaya

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.