Edmund Peiris (bishop)
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Edmund Peiris (bishop)
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The Right Reverend Edmund Pieris, O.M.I. was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Chilaw, Ceylon. He was born in Chilaw, the son of Mihindukulasuriya Manuel Diogu Pieris and Weerasinghage Clara Peiris and educated at St. Joseph's College, Colombo. He entered St. Bernard's Seminary in Borella, Colombo to study for the priesthood and was ordained in 1924, after which he graduated in Oriental Studies at the University of London. In 1939 he was consecrated as the Bishop of Chilaw to follow Bishop-elect Louis
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