Frank Marcus Fernando

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Frank Marcus Fernando (born October 19, 1931 in Tamita-Negombo, Sri Lanka , † August 24, 2009 in Chilaw ) was Bishop of Chilaw in Sri Lanka.

Life

Frank Marcus Fernando studied in Colombo and received his doctorate in Rome . He was ordained priest on December 22, 1956 in Rome .

Pope Paul VI appointed him titular bishop of Oliva in 1965 and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Colombo . He was ordained bishop on August 19, 1965 by the Archbishop of Colombo in Ceylon, Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray OMI ; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Chilaw, Edmund Peiris OMI, and Anthony de Saram , Bishop of Galle. In 1986 he was appointed coadjutor in the Diocese of Chilaw ; In 1972 he was appointed Bishop of Chilaw. 2006 was his retirement request by Benedict XVI. granted.

Frank Marcus Fernando has been called the “voice of the voiceless” because he repeatedly denounced the disadvantages of the population. In 2004 he led the bourgeois opposition movement against the anti-conversion law of the nationalist Jathika Hela Urumaya founded by Buddhist monks . The law was overturned with his complaint to the Colombo Supreme Court.

He published several books and was editor of Gnanartha Pradeepaya . He was also committed to the mission, in particular with the Sudasuna Center he founded in 1978 , which became the largest media center of the Catholic Church in Asia. In the Philippines he was a major contributor to Radio Veritas .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chilaw bishop eulogized for defending people's rights ( Memento from July 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) UCANews, August 25, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b Death of Mgr. Fernando, “voice of the voiceless” in Sri Lanka. AsiaNews, August 25, 2009.
predecessor Office successor
Edmund Peiris OMI Bishop of Chilaw
1972-2006 		Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis
personal data
SURNAME Fernando, Frank Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sri Lankan bishop
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Tamita-Negombo, Sri Lanka
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2009
Place of death Chilaw