(ANS - Rome) – The 27th General Chapter has confirmed Fr Fabio Attard for a second term as Councillor for Youth Ministry. To the formal question put to him by the Rector Major, Fr Attard said: " We are all in the hands of Mary, so, I accept!”

Don Attard was born on the 23rd of March 1959 in Gozo and was professed as a Salesian on the 8th of September 1980 in Dublin where he made his novitiate. He received the diaconate on the 11th of July 1986 and priesthood on the 4th of July the following year, in Rome.

Rector in Sliema, Malta, of  “St Alphonsus” first, and then of “St Patrick”, he received his degree in Moral Theology at the “Alphonsianum” in Rome.

He was the Rector of the Institute of Pastoral Formation, which he founded in 2005 in the Archdiocese of Malta; he participated in the 26th General Chapter as delegate of the Province of Ireland-Malta and was elected Councillor for Youth Ministry.

Published 27/03/2014