Honorific Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Bishop of Darwin | |
Birth Name: | Charles Victor Emmanuel Gauci |
Birth Date: | 31 March 1952 |
Birth Place: | Floriana, Malta |
Ordination: | 10 December 1977 |
Consecration: | 26 September 2018 |
Consecrated By: | Daniel Eugene Hurley |
Appointed: | 27 June 2018 |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Darwin |
See: | Darwin |
Predecessor: | Daniel Eugene Hurley |
Charles Gauci (born 1952) is an Australian priest who was appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Darwin on 27 June 2018. He had been a priest in the Archdiocese of Adelaide since his ordination in 1977.[1] His immediate previous post was as administrator of St Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide. He was consecrated bishop at St Mary's Star of the Sea Cathedral, Darwin on 26 September 2018.[2]
Gauci was born in Malta and moved with his family to Australia when he was 13 years old. He was ordained in 1977 and served in several parishes in the Archdiocese of Adelaide,[3] including the Southern Deanery with Kangaroo Island from 2012 to 2017.[4]