Bishop Jayakody Aratchige Don Anton Jayakody

Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Titular Bishop of Mulli

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Oct 1958		Born
27 Jul 1985	26.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Colombo, Sri Lanka
4 Apr 2018	59.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
4 Apr 2018	59.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mulli
23 Jun 2018	59.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mulli

MicroData Summary
Jayakody Aratchige Don Anton Jayakody
Bishop Jayakody Aratchige Don Anton Jayakody
(born 2 Oct 1958)
Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo

Event Place
Birth Place Pamunugama, Archdiocese of Colombo in Ceylon
Ordained Bishop St. Lucia, Cathedral, Colombo, Archdiocese of Colombo

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Colombo.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Albert Malcolm Ranjith Cardinal Patabendige Don
Archbishop of Colombo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Fidelis Lionel Emmanuel Fernando
Bishop of Mannar
Archbishop Pierre Nguyễn Văn Tốt
Titular Archbishop of Rusticiana
Bishop Harold Anthony Perera
Bishop of Kurunegala
Bishop Julian Winston Sebastian Fernando, S.S.S.
Bishop of Badulla

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Albert Malcolm Ranjith Cardinal Patabendige Don (1991)
Archbishop of Colombo
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q51371653

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 4 Apr 2018
ob/c2: CB, 21 Apr 2018
c34: CB, 4 May 2018
c3+: CB, 23 Jun 2018
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 236, Number 19,796

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