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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 16, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Rev. Victor Victor as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Malta for a five-year period (2023-2028) Agius, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Malta.
The new National Director is 73 years old and has been a priest for 48 years. After an initial experience in the parish, he attended a course on spirituality of communion in Frascati (1974-1977), at the Focolare Movement. He carried out his pastoral ministry as a missionary in the Philippines, in two parishes in Manila (1977-1983) and in a formation school for priests and seminarians (Tagaytay city, Cavite), first as assistant director and then as director (1983-2002 ). He then carried out pastoral service in Macao (2002-2004) while studying the Chinese language, and later in Canada, in the parish of the Chinese Martyrs in Markham, Ontario (2004-2006). He was in charge of the seminarians of the Focolare Movement in Grottaferrata, Rome, and a member of the General Council of the same Movement (2006-2009). He returned to the Philippines as director of the formation school for priests and seminarians (2009-2014). Since 2014 he has carried out his pastoral ministry in the parish of Marsascala, in Malta. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 29/3/2023)
