Galea Curmi officially appointed Vicar General

Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna has appointed Fr Joseph Galea-Curmi as Vicar General.

He will succeed Mgr Scicluna who also served as Vicar General following his appointment as Auxiliary Bishop of Malta on 6th October 2012.

Fr Joe is the brother of Edgar Galea Curmi, former chief of secretariat for the former prime minister Lawrence Gonzi.

I am pleased to announce that I have appointed Fr Joe Galea Curmi as my Vicar General. Please pray for him in his new mission.

— Bishop CJ Scicluna (@BishopScicluna) March 23, 2015

Galea Curmi was born in Malta on 1 January 1964, and ordained a priest on 5th July 1991.

He studied at the Faculty of Theology, University of Malta, and at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, where he obtained a doctorate in Theology (with specialization in Pastoral Theology). The doctoral Thesis was entitled The Diocesan Synod as a Pastoral Event. A Study of the Post-Conciliar Understanding of the Diocesan Synod (published in 2005).

After his studies in Rome, he was appointed Assistant Pastoral Secretary of the Archdiocese. He was co-ordinator of the Synod of the Archdiocese of Malta 1999-2003 and editor of the Synod final documents published by the Archdiocese of Malta in 2003 and 2004.

He edited several two-year and three-year Archdiocesan Pastoral Plans published after the Synod as part of the Synod implementation; and worked in the organising team of the Diocesan Assembly which is an annual event since 2004, following the Diocesan Synod.

He is a lecturer in the Faculty of Theology, University of Malta. He is also Secretary of the Foundation for Theological Studies and a member of the Board of the Institute for Pastoral Formation in the Archdiocese of Malta. He is a member of the European Society for Catholic Theology.

He serves in the Parish of the Annunciation, Balzan. He is also Ecclesiastical Assistant of the Maltese section of Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation.