Bishop Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis

Bishop of Kandy, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 May 1958		Born
20 Jul 1985	27.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
17 Jan 2005	46.6	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
2 Apr 2005	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
19 Oct 2006	48.4	Succeeded	Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
9 Oct 2021	63.3	Appointed	Bishop of Kandy, Sri Lanka
17 Jan 2022	63.6	Installed	Bishop of Kandy, Sri Lanka
17 Jan 2022	63.6	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
2 Mar 2024	65.7	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Chilaw, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary for Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis
(WikiData: Q2549423)
Bishop Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis (born 21 May 1958) Bishop of Kandy

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

Event Place
Birth Place Koralawella
Ordained Bishop Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Cathedral, Chilaw, Diocese of Chilaw

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Kandy.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

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

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-Fran�ois) 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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Arachchige Don Wimal Siri Appuhamy Jayasuriya (2024)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Ponniah (2008)
Bishop Echchampulle Arachchige Jude Nishanta Silva (2023)
Bishop Peter Antony Wyman Croos (2024)

Source(s):

ob/c2 : Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 179, Number 14,842
s: Bollettino, 19 Oct 2006
ab: Bollettino, 9 Oct 2021
aadm: AM, 13 Dec 2021
i: AM, 28 May 2022

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