RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Thomas Cooray

1901 - 1988

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Thomas Benjamin Cooray (Sinhala language: තෝමස් බෙන්ජමින් කුරේ), O.M.I. (28 December 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a Sri Lankan cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Colombo from 1947 to 1976. Pope Paul VI made him a cardinal in 1965. His cause of canonization commenced in 2010 and he has been bestowed with the title of Servant of God. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Cooray is the 2,889th most popular religious figure (up from 2,913th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 32nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Sri Lankan Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Thomas Cooray ranks 2,889 out of 3,187. Before him are James Stafford, Joseph Serge Miot, Eric of Friuli, María Guadalupe García Zavala, Gaudencio Rosales, and Juan Guevara. After him are Augusto Paolo Lojudice, Brother Alois, Swithun, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Maximos IV Sayegh, and Władysław Rubin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Thomas Cooray ranks 292. Before him are Louis Kuehn, Victor Leemans, Muhammad Fareed Didi, Casiano Chavarría, Lisette Model, and Paul Verhoeven. After him are Alexis Chantraine, Felipe Molas López, Thawan Thamrongnawasawat, Georgy Ushakov, Gerald Finzi, and Endre Steiner. Among people deceased in 1988, Thomas Cooray ranks 218. Before him are José Magriñá, Willi Apel, William McMahon, Alan Napier, Ray Barbuti, and Toni Frissell. After him are Colin Higgins, John Loder, Duane Jones, Ralph Meeker, Aya Kitō, and Thawan Thamrongnawasawat.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Thomas Cooray ranks 29 out of 51. Before him are William Gopallawa (1896), Natalia (null), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), and Frederick G. Donnan (1870). After him are Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), Bob Tisdall (1907), Duncan White (1918), Joyce Cooper (1909), and Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Sri Lanka

Among religious figures born in Sri Lanka, Thomas Cooray ranks 2. Before him are Malcolm Ranjith (1947).

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