Bishop Raymond Kingsley Wickramasinghe

Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
31 Aug 1962		Born
5 Aug 1989	26.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Galle, Sri Lanka
27 May 2011	48.7	Appointed	Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka
31 Aug 2011	49.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary
Raymond Kingsley Wickramasinghe
Bishop Raymond Kingsley Wickramasinghe
(born 31 Aug 1962)
Bishop of Galle

Ad Limina - May 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Uthuwankanda

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Galle.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Don Sylvester Wewitavidanelage †
Bishop of Galle
Principal Consecrator:
Albert Malcolm Ranjith Cardinal Patabendige Don
Archbishop of Colombo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Joseph Kingsley Swampillai
Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa
Bishop Harold Anthony Perera
Bishop of Kurunegala

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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Christian Noel Emmanuel (2015)
Bishop Mohottige Don Nishantha Sagara Jayamanne, S.S.S. (2026)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q915200

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 27 May 2011
c1/ob: CB, 1 Jun 2011
c2+: CB, 8 Aug 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 207, Number 17,133

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