Bishop Appasinghe Paul Perera †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kandy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Nov 1913		Born	Alton
24 Aug 1939	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kandy, Sri Lanka
17 May 1973	59.5	Appointed	Bishop of Kandy, Sri Lanka
29 Jun 1973	59.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kandy, Sri Lanka
16 May 1989	75.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kandy, Sri Lanka

a priest for 49.7 years
a bishop for 15.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli †
Bernardin Cardinal Gantin

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Appasinghe Paul Perera † (1973)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Vianney Fernando

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