Bishop Fidelis Lionel Emmanuel Fernando

Bishop Emeritus of Mannar, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 May 1948		Born
6 Jan 1973	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Colombo, Sri Lanka
28 Nov 2011	63.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
28 Nov 2011	63.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Horta
11 Feb 2012	63.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Horta
22 Nov 2017	69.5	Appointed	Bishop of Mannar, Sri Lanka
30 Dec 2017	69.6	Installed	Bishop of Mannar, Sri Lanka
14 Dec 2024	76.5	Retired	Bishop of Mannar, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary
Fidelis Lionel Emmanuel Fernando
Bishop Fidelis Lionel Emmanuel Fernando
(born 20 May 1948)
Bishop Emeritus of Mannar

Ad Limina - May 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Jaffna, Diocese of Jaffna
Ordained Bishop Saint Lucia, Cathedral, Colombo, Archdiocese of Colombo

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Mannar.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Consecrator:
Albert Malcolm Ranjith Cardinal Patabendige Don
Archbishop of Colombo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Joseph Spiteri
Titular Archbishop of Serta
Bishop Rayappu Joseph †
Bishop of Mannar

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Albert Malcolm Ranjith Cardinal Patabendige Don (1991)
Archbishop of Colombo
Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando † (1977)
Archbishop of Colombo
Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. † (1946)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. † (1931)
Titular Archbishop of Salamis
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.Ss.R. † (1918)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Gnanapragasam Anthonypillai (2025)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jayakody Aratchige Don Anton Jayakody (2018)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1411270

Source(s):

b/c1: Bollettino, 28 Nov 2011
ob: CB, 9 Dec 2011
ob: CB, 6 Feb 2012
c34: CB, 13 Feb 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 209, Number 17,259
ab: Bollettino, 22 Nov 2017
i: CB, 13 Dec 2017
r: Bollettino, 14 Dec 2024

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