Walter Michael Ebejer
Walter Michael Ebejer (3 August 1929 – 11 June 2021) was a Maltese-born Brazilian Catholic bishop and missionary. He served as the first Bishop of União da Vitória in Brazil from 1976/77 until his retirement in 2007.
Born in Dingli, Malta, he joined the Dominican Order and studied at St Thomas Aquinas College in Rabat, Malta, and in the United Kingdom. He was ordained a Dominican priest on 24 January 1954. In 1956 he earned a degree in philosophy and theology from Rabat, and in 1973 he earned a licentiate in theology summa cum laude from the Angelicum in Rome.
In 1957 Ebejer went to Brazil as a missionary in Goiás. From 1961 to 1969 he did pastoral work in northern Paraná and served as superior of the Maltese Dominican Order from 1969 to 1973. He also taught at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná and at the Studium Theologicum Catholic University, and he was the parish priest at Matinhos until 1976.
Pope Paul VI appointed him the first bishop of União da Vitória in December 1976, and he was consecrated as bishop on 6 March 1977 by Archbishop Carmine Rocco. He led the diocese for 30 years, retiring in January 2007 at age 77. Walter Michael Ebejer passed away on 11 June 2021 at the age of 91 in União da Vitória, Brazil.
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