Bishop Vincent Marius Joseph Peiris

Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo

Titular Bishop of Tacarata

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Oct 1941		Born	Moratuwa
25 Jan 1972	30.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Colombo, Sri Lanka
16 Nov 2000	59.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
16 Nov 2000	59.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tacarata
3 Feb 2001	59.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tacarata

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Colombo.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Oswald Thomas Colman Gomis
Bishop Joseph Kingsley Swampillai

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Vincent Marius Joseph Peiris (2001)
Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando (1977)
Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. † (1946)
Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. † (1931)
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.SS.R. † (1918)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Number 13,897

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