Gozo Bishop Mons. Mario Grech, yesterday appointed Canon John Muscat as the Parish Priest of Fontana, following the resignation of Fr Joseph Bajada.

Canon Muscat was born in Sannat in 1959 and after attending the village primary school he moved on to the Victoria Lyceum. In 1975 he started the philosophical and theological formation at the Gozo Seminary and was ordained a Priest by Pope John Paul II in Rome on May 31, 1984

Also in 1984 he began his pastoral work in Camden New Jersey and performed various ministries in the Council of Vocations Commission between Jews and Catholics, the Ecclesiastical Tribunal, Director of Propaganda faith, Catholic Relief Services Director for the diocese and missions of Brazil and Assistant Spiritual Director at the Seminary of St. Charles Philadelphia. He was also a Parish Administrator of several parishes and followed a four year course in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Fr. John returned to Malta in 2007 after 23 years of pastoral service abroad. He was appointed Honorary Canon of the Collegiate of Gharb in November 2009, Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in the Cathedral of New York in 2003 and Commander of the Order in the Cathedral of Mdina Malta, by Nuncio Apostolic in 2011.

Currently Canon John Muscat perform his pastoral ministry as a priest in the Gozo General Hospital, Rector of the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Xlendi, as well as on official in the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Gozo.

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