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Consecration of third Bishop of Anuradhapura The Consecration of the Bishop elect, the Very Rev. Fr. Norbert M. Andradi OMI will take place on Saturday, January 10 at 10.00 am at St.Joseph's Cathedral, Anuradhapura. Colombo Archbishop the Rt. Rev. Dr. Oswald Gomis will preside over the ceremony. His Lordship Bishop Andradi will be the third Bishop of Anuradhapura and the Second Oblate. The Bishop Elect will accept the 'See of the Anuradhapura Diocese' immediately after the Consecration ceremony. The Diocese of Anuradhapura was created in July 1982 with the Rt. Rev. Dr. Joy Gunawardene OMI as the First Bishop of the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa districts. Catholics are just one per cent of the total population of the two districts. Bishop Andradi, Superior of the Oblate Scholasticate at Ampitiya, Kandy and a Professor of the Tutorial Staff of the National Seminary of Our Lady of Sri Lanka was appointed as the new Bishop of Diocese of Anuradhapura, which he served as a young priest Pope John Paul II on November 11, 2003. The See of the Anuradhapura Diocese fell vacant in July 2002 with the appointment of the then Bishop of Anuradhapura Rt. Rev. Dr. Oswald Gomis as the Archbishop of Colombo to fill the vacancy created with the resignation of the then Archbishop Rt. Rev. Dr. Nicholas Marcus Fernando. The Bishop Elect is from Kalamulla, Kalutara and is the second son of Don Anthony Andradi and Dona Anna Madappuli. A member of the Congregation of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, he was ordained a priest on May 10, 1980 at the Ordination ceremony held at the Church of the Infant Jesus, Kalamulla by former Colombo Archbishop, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Nicholas Marcus Fernando. Fr. Andradi had his early education at the Kalamulla R.C.Boys School and Holy Cross College, Kalutara and in 1968 he joined the OMI Juniorate at Kohuwala, Nugegoda. He did his priestly studies at the National Seminary, Ampitiya, and the Gregorian University, Rome, and passed out with a Licentiate (STL) in Theology. After serving the Diocese of Anuradhapura for some time he joined the academic staff of the National Seminary and was a member of the Formators' Team of the Oblate Scholasticate. In 1989 he proceeded to Canada to continue his postgraduate studies and obtain his PhD. He rejoined the National Seminary staff on his return in 1995. |
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