Sr Cecilia Schembri is the new head of the Malta province of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition, which also comprise Tunisia and Ethiopia.
Sr Cecilia hails from Qormi and was a student at St Joseph School, Valletta. She continued her studies at Loreto College, Manchester, and at Manchester University.
Sr Cecilia served in different responsibilities within the congregation and has just returned from Rome. She will be aided in the provincial council by sisters Eugenie Ghirlando, Riches Grech, Michele Blomme, Denise Vassallo and Margaret Bonnici.