MALTA
The Sunday Times
Sunday, October 7, 2012 by
Herman Grech
Mgr Charles Scicluna pledged he would be a good listener, as the Vatican yesterday formally nominated him as Malta’s new Auxiliary Bishop.
“I want to bring this great hope to my home country I love so much. We have so much good which is worth preserving and promoting,” the 53-year-old Rome-based monsignor told The Sunday Times shortly after Pope Benedict XVI made his nomination official.
Mgr Scicluna’s Episcopal ordination will be held on November 24 and as Auxiliary Bishop, Mgr Scicluna will be called to be the closest collaborator and adviser of Archbishop Paul Cremona with “leadership responsibilities in the Curia and in diocesan pastoral ministry,” a Malta Curia statement said.
He will assume the position vacated by the late Bishop Annetto Depasquale who passed away last November.
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