Francis Baldacchino Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:His Excellency
Francis Baldacchino
Honorific-Suffix:OFMCap
Bishop of Malindi
Diocese:Malindi
Appointed:2 June 2000
Term:2000-2009
Term Start:2 September 2000
Successor:Emanuel Barbara
Ordination:18 March 1961
Consecration:2 September 2000
Consecrated By:Jozef Tomko
Rank:Bishop
Birth Date:6 July 1936
Birth Place:Marsa, Malta
Death Place:Msida Malta
Buried:Capuchin Crypt Of Floriana
Nationality:Maltese
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Francis Baldacchino (June 6, 1937 – October 9, 2009) was a Capuchin and the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Malindi], Kenya.

Biography

Born in Marsa, Malta, Baldacchino was ordained to the priesthood for the Friars Minor Capuchins on March 18, 1961. He went on a mission in Kenya in 1974. Between 1984 and 1990 he was Superior of the Capuchin mission in Kenya. Among his achievements, he organised and strengthened the formation of local Capuchins, especially by building a postulancy house in Mpeketoni and a major seminary in Nairobi. On June 2, 2000, Pope John Paul II appointed Baldacchino bishop and he was ordained on September 2, 2000. In 2010 he returned to Malta for medical treatment. He died a month later on October 9. His funeral took place in St John's Co-Cathedral on October 13 and was buried in the Addolorata cemetery in Paola, Malta. In 2011 his body was exhumed and reburied in Floriana.