Bishop Harold Anthony Perera

Bishop of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Jun 1951		Born
5 Jul 1980	29.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Colombo, Sri Lanka
29 Jan 2003	51.6	Appointed	Bishop of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka
18 Mar 2003	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka
15 Feb 2005	53.6	Appointed	Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka
8 Mar 2005	53.7	Installed	Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka
14 May 2009	57.9	Appointed	Bishop of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary
Harold Anthony Perera
Bishop Harold Anthony Perera
(born 9 Jun 1951)
Bishop of Kurunegala

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

Event Place
Birth Place Bopitiya

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Kurunegala.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando †
Archbishop of Colombo
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don
Bishop Emeritus of Ratnapura
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Oswald Thomas Colman Gomis †
Archbishop of Colombo
Bishop Thomas Emmanuel Savundaranayagam
Bishop of Jaffna

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don (1991)
Bishop Emeritus of Ratnapura
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Cletus Chandrasiri Perera, O.S.B. (2007)
Bishop Raymond Kingsley Wickramasinghe (2011)
Bishop Jayakody Aratchige Don Anton Jayakody (2018)
Bishop Echchampulle Arachchige Jude Nishanta Silva (2023)
Bishop Arachchige Don Wimal Siri Appuhamy Jayasuriya (2024)
Bishop Peter Antony Wyman Croos (2024)
Bishop Anthonypillai Gnanapragasam (2025)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1408312

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 14 May 2009
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 170, Number 14,347

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