Bishop Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Aug 1932		Born
20 Dec 1958	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Colombo in Ceylon, Sri Lanka
15 May 1987	54.7	Appointed	Bishop of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
18 Jul 1987	54.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
14 May 2009	76.7	Retired	Bishop of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
29 Sep 2017	85.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary for Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris
(WikiData: Q573526)
Bishop Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris (born 9 Aug 1932, died 29 Sep 2017) Bishop Emeritus of Kurunegala

Ad Limina - May 2005: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Kalaeliya, Archdiocese of Colombo in Ceylon
Ordained Priest St. Lucia, Cathedral, Kotahena, Archdiocese of Colombo in Ceylon
Ordained Bishop Ste Anne, Cathedral, Kurunegala, Diocese of Kurunegala
Death Place Kurunegala, Diocese of Kurunegala

a priest for 58.7 years
a bishop for 30.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Thomas Benjamin Cooray, O.M.I. †
Archbishop of Colombo in Ceylon
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando †
Archbishop of Colombo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Edmund Joseph Fernando, O.M.I. †
Bishop of Badulla
Bishop Joseph Kingsley Swampillai
Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando † (1977)
Archbishop of Colombo
Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. † (1946)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
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

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 14 May 2009
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 106, Number 9,258
d/c1: CB, 30 Sep 2017
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 234, Necrology (back)
bpd/opd/c1/loc: CB, 28 Aug 2024

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