Bishop Edmund Joseph Fernando, O.M.I. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Badulla, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Mar 1921		Born
6 Aug 1949	28.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate
9 Apr 1968	47.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo in Ceylon, Sri Lanka
9 Apr 1968	47.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Igilgili
17 Jul 1968	47.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Igilgili
5 Dec 1983	62.6	Appointed	Bishop of Badulla, Sri Lanka
3 Mar 1997	75.9	Retired	Bishop of Badulla, Sri Lanka
16 Jul 2004	83.3	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Badulla, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary
Edmund Joseph Fernando
Bishop Edmund Joseph Fernando O.M.I.
(born 25 Mar 1921, died 16 Jul 2004)
Bishop Emeritus of Badulla

Event Place
Birth Place Pitipana
Ordained Bishop Ste. Lucie, Cathedral, Colombo, Archdiocese of Colombo in Ceylon

a priest for 54.9 years
a bishop for 35.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Thomas Benjamin Cooray, O.M.I. †
Archbishop of Colombo in Ceylon
Principal Consecrator:
Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. †
Archbishop of Colombo in Ceylon
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Anthony de Saram †
Bishop of Galle
Bishop Jacob Bastiampillai Deogupillai †
Titular Bishop of Mozotcori

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. † (1946)
Archbishop of Colombo in Ceylon
Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. † (1931)
Titular Archbishop of Salamis
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.SS.R. † (1918)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Vianney Fernando (1983)
Bishop Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris † (1987)
Bishop Julian Winston Sebastian Fernando, S.S.S. (1997)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q11856566

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 112, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Necrology (back)
ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 72, Additions/Corrections (front)

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