Bishop Anton Ranjith Pillainayagam

Bishop of Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Apostolic Administrator of Batticaloa

Motto: Dominus Est

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Sep 1966		Born
16 Sep 2000	33.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Colombo, Sri Lanka
13 Jul 2020	53.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
13 Jul 2020	53.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Materiana
29 Aug 2020	53.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Materiana
19 Aug 2024	57.9	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
29 Jun 2026	59.7	Appointed	Bishop of Jaffna, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary
Anton Ranjith Pillainayagam
Bishop Anton Ranjith Pillainayagam
(born 23 Sep 1966)
Bishop of Jaffna

Event Place
Birth Place Jaffna, Diocese of Jaffna
Ordained Priest St. Lucia, Cathedral, Colombo, Archdiocese of Colombo
Ordained Bishop St. Lucia, Cathedral, Colombo, Archdiocese of Colombo

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Jaffna.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Albert Malcolm Ranjith Cardinal Patabendige Don
Archbishop of Colombo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Julian Winston Sebastian Fernando, S.S.S.
Bishop of Badulla
Bishop Justin Bernard Gnanapragasam
Bishop of Jaffna

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: Q97323400

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 13 Jul 2020
ob/c2: CB, 17 Jul 2020
c34: CB, 29 Aug 2020
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 245, Number 20,479
aadm: CB, 19 Aug 2024
aadm: Acta Apostolicæ Sedis, Volume 117, Page 70
ab: Bollettino, 29 Jun 2026

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