Bishop Don Sylvester Wewitavidanelage †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Galle, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Nov 1924		Born
23 Mar 1956	31.3	Ordained Priest	Priest
15 Oct 1982	57.8	Appointed	Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka
11 Dec 1982	58.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka
1995	70.0	Resigned	Bishop of Galle, Sri Lanka
9 Nov 1995	70.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Galle, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary for Don Sylvester Wewitavidanelage
(WikiData: Q64747536)
Bishop Don Sylvester Wewitavidanelage (born 27 Nov 1924, died 9 Nov 1995) Bishop Emeritus of Galle

Event Place
Birth Place Niripola
Ordained Bishop Our Lady of Lanka, Basilica, Tewatte

a priest for 39.6 years
a bishop for 12.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. †
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Nicholas Marcus Fernando †
Archbishop of Colombo
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 Raymond Kingsley Wickramasinghe (1989)

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 112, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 78, Number 6,348

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