Bishop Joseph Ponniah

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Bishop Joseph Ponniah

Bishop of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Oct 1952	65.5	Born
30 Apr 1980	27.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
19 Feb 2008	55.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
19 Feb 2008	55.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mons in Mauretania
24 May 2008	55.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mons in Mauretania
3 Jul 2012	59.7	Appointed	Bishop of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

MicroData Summary for
Joseph Ponniah

Bishop
Joseph
Ponniah
(born 12 Oct 1952)
Bishop
of Batticaloa

Ad Limina - May 2014: Bishop

Event	Place
Birth Place	Thannamunai

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Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Batticaloa.

a priest for
38.0
years

a bishop for
9.9
years

Principal Consecrator:
- Bishop Joseph Kingsley Swampillai
  Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa

Principal Co-Consecrators:
- Archbishop Mario Zenari
  Titular Archbishop of Iulium Carnicum
- Bishop Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis
  Bishop of Chilaw

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joseph Kingsley Swampillai (1983)
Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa

Agnelo Cardinal Rossi † (1956)
Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

Bishop Paulo de Tarso Campos † (1935)
Bishop of Campinas

Archbishop Duarte Leopoldo e Silva † (1904)
Archbishop of So Paulo

Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede

Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia

Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo

Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina

Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli

Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano

Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinit al Monte Pincio

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 Christian Noel Emmanuel (2015)

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 19 Feb 2008

ob/c2+: CB

ab: CB, 3 Jul 2012

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Number 15,748

ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 195, Additions/Corrections (front)

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