The funeral of Emanuel Scicluna, the father of Archbishop Charles Scicluna, will take place at St Sebastian Qormi parish church on Wednesday at 3.30pm followed by a private burial at the family grave at Lija cemetery, the Curia said.

Mr Scicluna, 85, died last Thursday in a hospital in Rome. He was in the Italian capital, together his family, to attend the presentation of the pallium, an ecclesiastical vestment, to Mgr Scicluna by Pope Francis on Monday.

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