Bishop Rayappu Joseph †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Mannar, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Apr 1940		Born
13 Dec 1967	27.6	Ordained Priest	Priest
6 Jul 1992	52.2	Appointed	Bishop of Mannar, Sri Lanka
20 Oct 1992	52.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mannar, Sri Lanka
14 Jan 2016	75.7	Retired	Bishop of Mannar, Sri Lanka
1 Apr 2021	80.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Mannar, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary for Rayappu Joseph
(WikiData: Q2134010)
Bishop Rayappu Joseph (born 16 Apr 1940, died 1 Apr 2021) Bishop Emeritus of Mannar

Ad Limina - May 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Delft
Ordained Bishop N.D. de Madhu, Shrine, Madhu
Death Place Jaffna, Diocese of Jaffna

a priest for 53.3 years
a bishop for 28.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Thomas Emmanuel Savundaranayagam
Bishop of Jaffna
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop François Robert Bacqué †
Titular Archbishop of Gradisca
Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando †
Archbishop of Colombo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Thomas Emmanuel Savundaranayagam (1981)
Bishop of Jaffna
Bishop Jacob Bastiampillai Deogupillai † (1967)
Bishop of Jaffna
Bishop Ignatius Philip Trigueros Glennie, S.J. † (1947)
Bishop of Trincomalee
Bishop Oscar Sevrin, S.J. † (1934)
Bishop of Ranchi
Archbishop Ferdinand Périer, S.J. † (1921)
Archbishop of Calcutta
Archbishop Pietro Pisani † (1919)
Titular Archbishop of Constantia in Scythia
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 Norbert Marshall Andradi, O.M.I. (2004)
Bishop Fidelis Lionel Emmanuel Fernando (2012)
Bishop Sampathawaduge Maxwell Grenville Silva (2012)

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 133, Number 11,983
r: Bollettino, 14 Jan 2016
d: CB, 1 Apr 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)

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