Bishop Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris

Bishop Emeritus of Kurunegala

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Aug 1932		Born	Kalaeliya
20 Dec 1958	26.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
15 May 1987	54.8	Appointed	Bishop of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
18 Jul 1987	54.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
14 May 2009	76.8	Retired	Bishop of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Kurunegala.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Edmund Joseph Fernando, O.M.I. †
Bishop Joseph Kingsley Swampillai

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris (1987)
Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando (1977)
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)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (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 †

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 14 May 2009
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 106, Number 9,258

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