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Bishop Fidelis Lionel Emmanuel Fernando
Bishop Emmanuel Fernando
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Bishop Fidelis Lionel Emmanuel Fernando
Bishop's House,
Pattim, 41000 Mannar,
Sri Lanka

Phone: +94-023-2222503; 023-2222710; Mobile: +94-077-7281591
Fax :2222.709
Email: [email protected]

Bishop Fidelis Lionel Emmanuel Fernando was born on May 20, 1948 in Jaffna. His parents are of Vembar (Tuticorin diocese) origin and he hails from a big family, four of whom are religious-two priests and two nuns. Bishop Fernando is the youngest son of late Mr V. Xavier Bastian Fernando (Civil Engineer) and late Mrs Gnanasorubi Fernando of Vembar, South India.

He was assigned the titular see of Orta. After his primary and secondary school education at St. Benedict’s College, in Colombo and entered the Minor Seminary of St. Aloysius of Columbo Archdiocese.
After completing his studies at the Minor Seminary, he was admitted to the National Seminary of Kandy for philosophical studies. He was sent to Rome, for his theological studies where he obtained his Bachelors degree in Theology and a Licentiate in Moral Theology at Urbaniana University. From 1981 to 1987, while he was teaching at the National Major Seminary of Kandy, he went to the Catholic University of Washington (U.S.A.), where he obtained his Doctorate in Theology.

Pope Paul VI ordained him a priest on Jan. 6, 1973 in the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI appointed him as the Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Colombo on Nov. 28, 2011. He has held the post of professor of Theology and also of rector at the national seminary, and Episcopal Vicar for the South in the archdiocese of Colombo. At present, he is the Episcopal Vicar for the Tamil Apostolate in the archdiocese.

On Nov 22, 2017 Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Fidelis Lionel Emmanuel Fernando as the new bishop of Mannar.

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