Bishop Arachchige Don Wimal Siri Appuhamy Jayasuriya

Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Jan 1969		Born
9 Aug 1997	28.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
6 Dec 2023	54.8	Appointed	Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
2 Mar 2024	55.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary
Arachchige Don Wimal Siri Appuhamy Jayasuriya
Bishop Arachchige Don Wimal Siri Appuhamy Jayasuriya
(born 23 Jan 1969)
Bishop of Chilaw

Event Place
Birth Place Negombo, Archdiocese of Colombo in Ceylon
Ordained Bishop In Front of, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Cathedral, Chilaw, Diocese of Chilaw

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Chilaw.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis
Bishop of Kandy
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Brian Ngozi Udaigwe
Titular Archbishop of Suelli
Bishop Harold Anthony Perera
Bishop of Kurunegala
Albert Malcolm Ranjith Cardinal Patabendige Don
Archbishop of Colombo
Bishop Kevin Carl Rhoades
Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis (2005)
Bishop of Kandy
Bishop Frank Marcus Fernando † (1965)
Bishop of Chilaw
Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. † (1946)
Archbishop of Colombo in Ceylon
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: Q123689071

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 6 Dec 2023
ob: CB, 12 Dec 2023
c2+: CB, 1 Mar 2024
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 259, Number 21,419
c56: CB, 1 Jun 2024

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