Bishop Cletus Chandrasiri Perera, O.S.B.

Bishop Emeritus of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Sep 1947		Born
28 Feb 1965	17.4	Professed	Member of Order of Saint Benedict
17 Feb 1971	23.4	Solemn Vows	Member of Order of Saint Benedict
4 Aug 1973	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict
4 May 2007	59.6	Appointed	Bishop of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka
11 Jul 2007	59.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka
28 Jul 2007	59.8	Installed	Bishop of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka
5 Mar 2024	76.4	Retired	Bishop of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary for Cletus Chandrasiri Perera
(WikiData: Q938421)
Bishop Cletus Chandrasiri Perera O.S.B. (born 6 Sep 1947) Bishop Emeritus of Ratnapura

Ad Limina - May 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Seeduwa
Ordained Bishop XII Saints Apôtres, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Ratnapura.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Joseph Vianney Fernando
Bishop of Kandy
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don
Titular Archbishop of Umbriatico
Bishop Harold Anthony Perera
Bishop of Galle

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joseph Vianney Fernando (1983)
Bishop of Kandy
Bishop Appasinghe Paul Perera † (1973)
Bishop Emeritus of Kandy
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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 Peter Antony Wyman Croos (2024)

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 4 May 2007
ob/c2+/i: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 190, Number 15,479
r: Bollettino, 5 Mar 2024

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