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Bishop Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis

Bishop of Chilaw

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Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Chilaw. a priest for years a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator: Bishop Frank Marcus Fernando Principal Co-Consecrators: Archbishop Oswald Thomas Colman Gomis Bishop Joseph Kingsley Swampillai

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Bishop Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis (2005) Bishop Frank Marcus Fernando (1965) 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 Ponniah

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