Bishop Nikol Cauchi has appointed Fr Edward Xuereb the new parish priest of Ghasri.
Fr Xuereb replaces Fr Joseph Cini, parish priest since 1992, who has been appointed religious counsellor at Victoria Boys Secondary School.
Born on April 12, 1970, Fr Xuereb was ordained by Bishop Cauchi on June 24, 1995. In 1999 he obtained a doctorate summa cum laude in canon and civil law from the Pontificium Institution Utriusque Iuris in Rome, after completing a thesis entitled "La natura dell ordinamento giuridico vaticano e la sua evoluzione durante il pontificato di Giovanni Paolo II".
Fr Xuereb served as parish vicar at Santa Lucia parish in Rome and also did pastoral work in Xewkija parish.
Currently he is a lecturer at the Major Seminary, secretary of Presbyterial council and also judge at the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Gozo.