Bishop Joseph Kingsley Swampillai

Bishop Emeritus of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Dec 1936		Born
20 Dec 1961	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
17 Mar 1983	46.2	Appointed	Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
7 May 1983	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
3 Jul 2012	75.5	Appointed	Bishop of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
3 Jun 2015	78.4	Retired	Bishop of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
14 Jan 2016	79.0	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Mannar, Sri Lanka
30 Dec 2017	81.0	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Mannar, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary
Joseph Kingsley Swampillai
Bishop Joseph Kingsley Swampillai
(born 9 Dec 1936)
Bishop Emeritus of Trincomalee

Ad Limina - May 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Kayts, Diocese of Jaffna
Ordained Bishop College Urbain de la Propaganda, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Trincomalee.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Agnelo Cardinal Rossi †
Cardinal-Priest of Gran Madre di Dio
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †
Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore
Archbishop Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J. †
Titular Archbishop of Potentia in Piceno

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Agnelo Cardinal Rossi † (1956)
Cardinal-Priest of Gran Madre di Dio
Bishop Paulo de Tarso Campos † (1935)
Bishop of Campinas
Archbishop Leopoldo Duarte e Silva † (1904)
Archbishop of São Paulo
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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

Ordained Deacon:
Bishop Christian Noel Emmanuel (1985)
Ordained Priest:
Bishop Christian Noel Emmanuel (1986)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Ponniah † (2008)
Bishop Christian Noel Emmanuel (2015)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris † (1987)
Bishop Vincent Marius Joseph Peiris † (2001)
Bishop Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis (2005)
Bishop Raymond Kingsley Wickramasinghe (2011)
Bishop Justin Bernard Gnanapragasam (2015)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1707403

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 142
r: Bollettino, 3 Jun 2015
ab: Bollettino, 14 Jan 2016
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 80, Number 6,533
bpd/opd: CB, 9 Sep 2024

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