Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Dec 1932		Born
20 Dec 1959	27.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Colombo in Ceylon, Sri Lanka
21 Mar 1977	44.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
14 May 1977	44.4	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
6 Jul 2002	69.5	Resigned	Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
10 Apr 2020	87.3	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Colombo, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary
Nicholas Marcus Fernando
Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando
(born 6 Dec 1932, died 10 Apr 2020)
Archbishop Emeritus of Colombo

Event Place
Birth Place Munnakkara
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Colombo, Archdiocese of Colombo
Death Place Colombo, Archdiocese of Colombo

a priest for 60.3 years
a bishop for 42.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Grégoire-Pierre XV (François) Cardinal Agagianian †
Patriarch of Cilicia (Armenian)
Principal Consecrator:
Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. †
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Anthony de Saram †
Bishop of Galle
Bishop Jacob Bastiampillai Deogupillai †
Bishop of Jaffna

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Harold Anthony Perera (1980)
Bishop Sampathawaduge Maxwell Grenville Silva (1981)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris † (1987)
Albert Malcolm Ranjith Cardinal Patabendige Don (1991)
Bishop Vincent Marius Joseph Peiris † (2001)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas Emmanuel Savundaranayagam (1981)
Bishop Henry Swithin Thomas Alexander Wijetunge Goonewardena, O.M.I. † (1982)
Bishop Don Sylvester Wewitavidanelage † (1982)
Bishop Rayappu Joseph † (1992)
Bishop Julian Winston Sebastian Fernando, S.S.S. (1997)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 52515343
WikiData: Q1984931

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 112, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 44, Number 3,012
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 246, Necrology (back)

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