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| Saturday, 17 July 2004 |
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Rt. Rev. Dr. Edmund Fernando passes away His Lordship Rt. Rev. Dr. Edmund J. Fernando OMI, Bishop Emeritus, Badulla, expired yesterday morning while receiving medical treatment at the Durdens Hospital, Colombo. The body was taken from A.F. Raymond Parlour yesterday to Pitipana Parish Church, his native village. The body will be taken to St. Lucia's Cathedral, Colombo this morning for the public to pay their last respects. The body will be taken to Badulla diocese today at 3 p.m. where he served as the Second Bishop of Badulla. On Monday evening, he will be laid to rest after the Requiem High Mass at the Cathedral in Badulla. The final religious rites will be observed at 3.00pm. Bishop Fernando is from Pitipana, a little hamlet in Negombo. He was born on March 25, 1921, and joined the Oblates of Mary Immaculate after passing the Cambridge Junior Examination. He was ordained a priest of God on August 6, 1949, by the then Colombo Archbishop His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Cooray. After serving as the Parish Priest of Moratuwa he was sent to Rome to study spirituality and on his return in 1966, was appointed the Novice Master at Sacred Heart Novitiate, Kalutara where the aspirant to religious life and priesthood in the OMI Congregation spent their formatic years in religious life. While he was the Spiritual Director of the Major Seminarians at the National Seminary of Our Lady of Sri Lanka in Kandy, in May 22, 1968 he along with Fr. Oswald Gomis, the present Archbishop of Colombo was nominated as an Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo when His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Cooray was the Archbishop. With the demise of the first Bishop of Badulla Rt. Rev. Dr.Leo Nanayakara, he succeeded him from January 30, 1984. He was there until his retirement on April 2, 1997. He spent his last day at the Emmaus, the house of retired priests. |
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