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Robert Camilleri Azzopardi

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His Excellency

Robert Camilleri Azzopardi

O.F.M.
Bishop of Comayagua
ChurchRoman Catholic
DioceseComayagua
Appointed21 May 2004
Installed24 July 2004
PredecessorGeraldo Scarpone Caporale
Previous post(s)Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa (2001-2004)
Orders
Ordination29 June 1975
by Pope Paul VI
Consecration15 August 2001
by Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga
RankBishop
Personal details
Born (1951-04-24) 24 April 1951 (age 73)
NationalityMaltese

Robert Camilleri Azzopardi O.F.M. (born 24 April 1951) is the bishop of the Diocese of Comayagua in Honduras since 2004.

Biography

Robert Camilleri Azzopardi was born in Ħamrun Malta on 24 April 1951 to John Camilleri and Marianne Azzopardi. He is the fifth in a family of six other brothers and three sisters. He became a Franciscan and was ordained on 29 June 1975 by Pope Paul VI in Rome.[1] When back in Malta he became the master of novices for three years and then departed as a missionary to Honduras. In Honduras he became the Parish Priest of La Libertad for 10 years when he was transferred to El Calvario in Comayagüela in 1992.[2]

On 26 July 2001, Pope John Paul II appointed him as the Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa and Titular Bishop of Vagada. He was consecrated on the feast of the Assumption in the Basilica of Nuesta Senora de Suyapa by Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. In 2004 he was appointed to the Diocese of Comayagua. He was installed as the third bishop on 24 July 2004.

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