Bishop Edmund Joseph Fernando, O.M.I. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Badulla

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Mar 1921		Born	Pitipana
6 Aug 1949	28.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate
9 Apr 1968	47.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo in Ceylon, Sri Lanka
9 Apr 1968	47.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Igilgili
17 Jul 1968	47.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Igilgili
5 Dec 1983	62.7	Appointed	Bishop of Badulla, Sri Lanka
3 Mar 1997	75.9	Retired	Bishop of Badulla, Sri Lanka
16 Jul 2004	83.3	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Badulla, Sri Lanka

a priest for 54.9 years
a bishop for 36.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. †
Principal Consecrator:
Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Anthony de Saram †
Bishop Jacob Bastiampillai Deogupillai †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Edmund Joseph Fernando, O.M.I. † (1968)
Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. † (1946)
Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. † (1931)
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.SS.R. † (1918)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Vianney Fernando
Bishop Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris
Bishop Julian Winston Sebastian Fernando, S.S.S.

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