Bishop Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis

Bishop of Chilaw

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 May 1958		Born	Koralawella
20 Jul 1985	27.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
17 Jan 2005	46.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
2 Apr 2005	46.9	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
19 Oct 2006	48.4	Succeeded	Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka

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)
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 †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Ponniah

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 179, Number 14,842
s: Bollettino, 19 Oct 2006

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