Bishop Henry Swithin Thomas Alexander Wijetunge Goonewardena, O.M.I. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Jul 1925		Born
16 Mar 1951	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate
20 Dec 1975	50.4	Appointed	Prefect of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
18 Mar 1982	56.6	Appointed	Bishop of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
10 Jul 1982	56.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
2 Nov 1995	70.2	Resigned	Bishop of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
17 Apr 2000	74.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary for Henry Swithin Thomas Alexander Wijetunge Goonewardena
(WikiData: Q64734736)
Bishop Henry Swithin Thomas Alexander Wijetunge Goonewardena O.M.I. (born 15 Jul 1925, died 17 Apr 2000) Bishop Emeritus of Anuradhapura

Event Place
Birth Place Dehiwela
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Anuradhapura, Diocese of Anuradhapura

a priest for 49.0 years
a bishop for 17.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Frank Marcus Fernando †
Bishop of Chilaw
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando †
Archbishop of Colombo
Bishop Jacob Bastiampillai Deogupillai †
Bishop of Jaffna

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Frank Marcus Fernando † (1965)
Bishop of Chilaw
Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. † (1946)
Archbishop of Colombo in Ceylon
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

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 75, Number 6,035

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