The sitting will take place from 9am before the casket can proceed to the Rev. Sione Kami Memorial church for the funeral service from 11am.
The senior residential judge of the East New Britain Province will be flown back to Kokopo on Thursday.
The main funeral service will be held on Friday in Kokopo, before the late judge’s casket is repatriated to New Ireland on Saturday.
He will be laid to rest in Lelet village, New Ireland, on Sunday, August 27.