Bishop Joseph Vianney Fernando

Bishop Emeritus of Kandy, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Aug 1942		Born
21 Dec 1966	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kandy, Sri Lanka
17 Mar 1983	40.6	Appointed	Bishop of Kandy, Sri Lanka
21 May 1983	40.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kandy, Sri Lanka
9 Oct 2021	79.1	Retired	Bishop of Kandy, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary
Joseph Vianney Fernando
Bishop Joseph Vianney Fernando
(born 6 Aug 1942)
Bishop Emeritus of Kandy

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

Event Place
Birth Place Burullapitiya, Archdiocese of Colombo
Ordained Bishop Kandy, Diocese of Kandy

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Kandy.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Appasinghe Paul Perera †
Bishop Emeritus of Kandy
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jacob Bastiampillai Deogupillai †
Bishop of Jaffna
Bishop Edmund Joseph Fernando, O.M.I. †
Titular Bishop of Igilgili

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 Cletus Chandrasiri Perera, O.S.B. (2007)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Justin Bernard Gnanapragasam (2015)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1708135

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 85, Number 7,092
r: Bollettino, 9 Oct 2021
bpd/opd: CB, 8 Sep 2024
bp: CB, 10 Sep 2024

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