Bishop Sampathawaduge Maxwell Grenville Silva

Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Titular Bishop of Lesina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Sep 1953		Born
25 Jul 1981	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Colombo, Sri Lanka
28 Nov 2011	58.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
28 Nov 2011	58.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Lesina
11 Feb 2012	58.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lesina

MicroData Summary for Sampathawaduge Maxwell Grenville Silva
(WikiData: Q2217615)
Bishop Sampathawaduge Maxwell Grenville Silva (born 27 Sep 1953) Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo

Ad Limina - May 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Willorawatte
Ordained Bishop Saint Lucia, Cathedral, Colombo, Archdiocese of Colombo

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Colombo.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando †
Archbishop of Colombo
Principal Consecrator:
Albert Malcolm Ranjith Cardinal Patabendige Don
Archbishop of Colombo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Joseph Spiteri
Titular Archbishop of Serta
Bishop Rayappu Joseph †
Bishop of Mannar

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

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 28 Nov 2011
ob: CB, 9 Dec 2011
ob: CB, 6 Feb 2012
c34: CB, 13 Feb 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 209, Number 17,260

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