His Excellency, The Most Reverend Peter Baldacchino |
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Auxiliary bishop of Miami Titular Bishop of Vatarba |
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Archdiocese | Miami |
Appointed | February 20, 2014 |
Installed | March 19, 2014 |
Other posts | Titular Bishop of Vatarba |
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Ordination | May 25, 1996 by Theodore Edgar McCarrick |
Consecration | March 19, 2014 by Thomas Gerard Wenski, Patrick Pinder, and Charles Henry Dufour |
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Born |
Sliema, Malta |
December 5, 1960
Motto | UBI DOMINUS IBIDEM LÆTITIA |
Styles of Peter Baldacchino |
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Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
Peter Baldacchino (born December 5, 1960) is a Maltese-born Catholic bishop in the United States. Since 2014 he has served as the Auxiliary Bishop of Miami.
Baldacchino was born in Sliema, Malta. He was educated in Mount Carmel College, now Saint Elias College (http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140504/social/Old-boy-visits-childhood-college.517546; http://www.newsbook.com.mt/artikli/2014/4/30/l-isqof-baldacchino-izur-l-iskola-fejn-kien-student.17484/). While he was a student at the University of Malta he became interested in the Neocatechumenal Way. He earned a diploma in sciences from the University of Malta, electrical installation licenses from Umberto Calosso Trade School in Malta, and a bachelor of arts degree from Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey. While studying at the Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology at Seton Hall University he lived in community at the Redemptoris Mater Missionary House of Formation in Kearny, New Jersey. He received a master of divinity degree from Seton Hall. Baldacchino was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Newark on May 25, 1996 by Archbishop Theodore McCarrick. He holds dual citizenship in both the United States and Malta.