Mauro Caruana
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His Excellency Maurus Caruana, O.S.B., KGC, KBE |
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| Bishop of Malta | |
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| Church | Roman Catholic |
| Province | Palermo |
| See | Malta |
| Appointed | 22 January 1915 |
| Installed | 25 February 1915 |
| Term ended | 17 December 1943 |
| Predecessor | Pietro Pace |
| Successor | Mikiel Gonzi |
| Other posts | Titular Archbishop of Rhodes (1915-1928) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 14 March 1891 by Hugh Macdonald, C.Ss.R. |
| Consecration | 22 January 1915 by Rafael Merry del Val |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Luigi Carlo Giovanni Giuseppe Publio Caruana |
| Born |
November 16, 1867 Floriana, Crown Colony of Malta, British Empire |
| Died | December 17, 1943 (aged 76) Mdina, Crown Colony of Malta, British Empire |
| Buried |
St. Paul's Cathedral, Mdina, Malta |
| Nationality | Maltese |
| Parents | Enrico Caruana & Elizabetta Bonavia |
Maurus Caruana, O.S.B., KGC, KBE, (November 16, 1867 – 17 December 1943) was a Maltese Benedictine monk who served as the Bishop of Malta and the Titular Archbishop of Rhodes.
He was born Luigi Carlo Giovanni Giuseppe Publio Caruana in Floriana, in what was then the Crown Colony of Malta, part of the British Empire. He was the youngest of the three sons of Enrico Caruana, assistant secretary to the Admiral Superintendent of the Malta Dockyards, and Elizabetta Bonavia. His older brothers went on to become a London banker and the Judge-Advocate General of the British Raj in India.
Caruana's mother died on January 25, 1869, when Luigi was still in his infancy, and he was raised by his father. In 1876, at the age of nine, he was admitted to the minor seminary of the Diocese of Gozo, and a year later he pursued his studies at St. Ignatius College in St. Julian's, administered by the Jesuit Fathers. Wishing to become a Benedictine monk, in 1882 he was enrolled in the school operated by the monks of Fort Augustus Abbey in Scotland, where he continued his studies.
In 1884, Caruana was received as a postulant of the monastic community, and received the monastic habit on March 21 of that year, celebrated by Benedictines as the feast day of St. Benedict, the founder of the Benedictine Order, and being given at that occasion the religious name of Maurus, after one of the founder's most noted disciples. He made his temporary profession of religious vows the following year, and he made his solemn vows three years later, on November 11, 1888. He then pursued his study of theology and was ordained a priest on March 14, 1891, by Hugh MacDonald, C.Ss.R., the Bishop of Aberdeen. He was then sent to pursue his ecclesiastical studies in Rome at San Anselmo College, an international center of studies run by the Benedictine Order.
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