Tirana's (Durres) auxiliary bishop Ġorġ Frendo OP has been nominated by the Pope as Archbishop of the same diocese. He will be installed Archbishop on December 3 at St Paul’s Cathedral in Tirana.
Born in Qormi in 1946, Bishop Frendo was ordained priest in 1969.
He has served in Malta and Albania and authored several books of a doctrinal or spiritual nature.