Bishop Vincent Marius Joseph Peiris †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Titular Bishop of Tacarata

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Oct 1941		Born
25 Jan 1972	30.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Colombo, Sri Lanka
16 Nov 2000	59.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
16 Nov 2000	59.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tacarata
3 Feb 2001	59.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tacarata
4 Apr 2018	76.4	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
13 May 2024	82.5	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Colombo, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary for Vincent Marius Joseph Peiris
(WikiData: Q2526685)
Bishop Vincent Marius Joseph Peiris (born 11 Oct 1941, died 13 May 2024) Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Colombo

Ad Limina - May 2005: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Moratuwa
Ordained Bishop Saint Lucy, Cathedral, Colombo, Archdiocese of Colombo
Death Place Evening Star retirement facility, Colombo, Archdiocese of Colombo

a priest for 52.3 years
a bishop for 23.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando †
Archbishop of Colombo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Oswald Thomas Colman Gomis †
Bishop of Anuradhapura
Bishop Joseph Kingsley Swampillai
Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Number 13,897
r: Bollettino, 4 Apr 2018
d: CB, 13 May 2024

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