{"id":22607,"date":"2026-03-26T09:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/listing\/rev-fr-athanasius-samarasinghe\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:08:13","slug":"rev-fr-athanasius-samarasinghe","status":"publish","type":"rtcl_listing","link":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/listing\/rev-fr-athanasius-samarasinghe\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Fr. ATHANASIUS SAMARASINGHE,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Fr. ATHANASIUS SAMARASINGHE,\u200b of the Archdiocese of Colombo,\u200b expired on Tuesday 24th March 2026. He is the beloved son of the late Mr Alexander Samarasinghe and late Mrs M.D. Cecilia. The mortal remains of Rev. Fr. Athanasius Samarasinghe will be brought to\u00a0St. Joseph\u2019s Church,\u200b\u00a0Thillanduwa\u00a0on Wednesday,\u200b 25th March at 10.00 a.m. for public viewing. Thereafter his remains will be transferred to\u00a0St. Anne\u2019s Church,\u200b\u00a0Palangatura\u00a0at 7.30 p.m. The Requiem Mass will be celebrated on Thursday,\u200b 26th March at 3.00 p.m. at St. Anne\u2019s Church,\u200b Palangatura followed by burial at the Catholic Cemetery,\u200b Palangatura.\u00a0Archibishop\u2019s House,\u200b\u00a0Borella.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-22607","rtcl_listing","type-rtcl_listing","status-publish","hentry","rtcl_category-ob-chr","rtcl_location-western-province","listing-item","rtcl-listing-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing\/22607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rtcl_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing\/22607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}