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    Sir Michael Count Gonzi KBE (born Mikiel / Michele Gonzi: 13 May 1885 – 22 January 1984), was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Malta from 1944 until 1976....
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    grandnephew of Mikiel Gonzi, Archbishop of Malta from 1944 until 1976. His younger brother, Michael Gonzi, is a Nationalist backbencher. Gonzi spent his childhood...
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    following the dispute between the Malta Labour Party and his predecessor Mikiel Gonzi, the then Archbishop of Malta. Archbishop Mercieca was born in Victoria...
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  • Minister Lawrence Gonzi and a grandnephew of late Archbishop of the Diocese of Malta Mikiel Gonzi. Politics of Malta Lawrence Gonzi#Family and early life...
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    burns on various parts of her body. At her funeral Mass, Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi called the murder of Karin Grech "the first terrorist act in the country"...
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  • The Gonzi family Mikiel Gonzi (Archbishop of Malta, 1943–1976, Labour Party Senator 1921–1924) Lawrence Gonzi (great-grandnephew of Mikiel Gonzi, Prime...
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  • (translated in English into Joseph Pace) was the 7th Bishop of Gozo after Mikiel Gonzi. He remained in office till his death in 1972. Joseph Pace was born in...
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    in the country, was founded in 1968 at the initiative of Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi and Bishop Nikol Cauchi. There are two cathedrals in the diocese: The...
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  • Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (d. 1944) 1885 – Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984) 1887 – Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator...
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  • Prelature of Chuquibamba in Peru. He was consecrated bishop by Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi of Malta. Gauci participated, as a council father, in all four of the...
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  • between the Labour Party and the Maltese church, headed by Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi, to his advantage. This was a particular achievement given Borg Olivier's...
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    1936 and was consecrated and dedicated on June 3, 1967, by Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi. Since then, the church has undergone restoration and its interior is...
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    Catholic POWs. The chapel was formally blessed by the Archbishop of Malta Mikiel Gonzi in May 1946. During 1947, several prisoners were repatriated to Germany...
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    of coronation granted on 3 February 1948 to the Archbishop of Malta, Mikiel Gonzi. Notarized by the Regent of the Apostolic Dataria, Marco Martini. Vatican...
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    Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued its official "nihil obstat". Mikiel Gonzi (the Archbishop of Malta) subsequently issued the decree on 24 June 1975...
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    June 1943. The newly built Basilica was consecrated by Archbishop Sir Mikiel Gonzi on 24 August 1957. The following day the Basilica resumed its normal...
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  • first bishop. He was consecrated on 28 November that year by Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi of Malta at the St John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta. During his time as...
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    George Borg Olivier, Governor-General Maurice Henry Dorman, Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi, and a number of judges, magistrates, ministers and other guests. The...
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    the Roman Catholic Church in Malta and the Maltese Nationalist Party. Mikiel Gonzi, Archbishop of Malta, remained staunchly opposed to decriminalization...
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  • Caritas Malta was formally founded in 1968 at the initiative of Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi and Bishop Nikol Cauchi, although charity work under the name of Caritas...
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    to the public on 30 October 1954 and it was consecrated by Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi in May 1955. The church falls under the jurisdiction of the parish of...
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    Caruana, Titular Archbishop of Rhodes and Bishop of Malta, and Mikiel Monsignor Gonzi, Bishop of Gozo, issued a pastoral letter, read in all the churches...
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  • Malta. He was ordained bishop by Archbishop Caruana assisted by Bishop Mikiel Gonzi (at that time Bishop of Gozo) at the Cathedral in Mdina on 5 July 1942...
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    inauguration of the enlarged church took place on 28 July 1940, by Bishop Mikiel Gonzi. On 6 September 1958 Archpriest Cefai announced to the gathered congregation...
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    new church. The cornerstone was laid on 27 January 1946 by Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi. The crypt of the church was completed by 1952 and was blessed that same...
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    area between Birkirkara and Sliema began to develop, Archbishop Mons. Mikiel Gonzi requested the Capuchin friars to address the spiritual needs of the expanding...
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    consecrated and dedicated to Christ the King on June 3, 1967, by Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi. On 5 April 2020 a decree was signed in the Vatican, by virtue of which...
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    The chapel was also vandalised numerous times. As a result, Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi deconsecrated the chapel. However, recently, the chapel was restored...
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    May 1930, as the elections approached, Bishops Dom Mauro Caruana and Mikiel Gonzi issued a pastoral letter imposing mortal sin and an interdict on voters...
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    year for the Żabbarin. The then Metropolitan Archbishop of Malta Michael Gonzi crowned the miraculous image of Our Lady of Grace venerated in her Sanctuary...
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