Bishop Edmund Peiris, O.M.I. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Chilaw

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Dec 1897		Born	Chilaw
25 Feb 1924	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate
12 Jan 1940	42.0	Appointed	Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
25 Apr 1940	42.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
27 Dec 1972	75.0	Resigned	Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
4 Sep 1989	91.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Chilaw, Sri Lanka

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

a priest for 65.5 years
a bishop for 49.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Jean-Marie Masson, O.M.I. †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Bernardo Regno, O.S.B. †
Bishop Nicola Laudadio, S.J. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Edmund Peiris, O.M.I. † (1940)
Archbishop Jean-Marie Masson, O.M.I. † (1938)
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 †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. †
Bishop Jerome Emilianus Pillai, O.M.I. †
Bishop Anthony de Saram †
Bishop Frank Marcus Fernando †

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 120
b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1940, Number 25

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