Fr. Tony Sciberras joined our community at the beginning of the new year of formation. In January he will be appointed Rector of the Major Seminary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Fr. Tony is residing at the Seminary and is taking part in all the activities held at the Seminary.
Fr. Tony Sciberras MSSP aged 62, was ordained on the 9th of July 1978, after completing a theology course at St. Thomas College, St. Dominic, Rabat, Malta. He continued his studies at the Gregorian University in Rome, where in 1982 he obtained a license in Spiritual Theology. In 1989 he obtained a Diploma Fr.om the Congregation of the Causes of Saints. In 2005 he obtained a Doctorate in Theology of Consecrated Life Fr.om Rome. Within the Missionary Society of St. Paul, Fr. Sciberras was Prefect of Prenovices, Head of Novices, Moderator of students MSSP, Assistant General Superior, the Superior General Delegate for Malta, Provincial Bursar, Superior of Agatha’s in Rabat, and the Vice-Postulator of the Beatification Cause of Mons. Joseph De Piro.
He was also co-founder and member of the Centre for Religious Institutes (CIR) and the course coordinator and lecturer for CIR and INSERM. He is a visiting lecturer of Theology and Spiritual Theology of Consecrated Life at the University of Malta, and he gives the same course at the Major Seminary of the Heart of Jesus, Gozo. He is also director of the Consecrated Life Institute (IHK).
He is Postulator of the Beatification Cause of Fr. Michael Attard and Deputy Postulatur of the Beatification Causes of Mgr Joseph De Piro and Henry and Inez Casolani. Fr. Sciberras was also Postulatur of the Beatification Cause of Maria Theresa Nuzzo
Welcome Fr. Tony!