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Domenican friar, missionary lecturer and bishop of
Parana, Brazil, Ebejer was born in Dingli on the 3rd
August, 1929. He received his education at the
Lyceum.
Bishop Ebejer joined the Dominican order and pursued
his higher studies at St. Thomas Aquinas College in
Rabat, St. Giles, Oxford, UK.
After his ordination he graduated lector in
philosophy and theology from St. Thomas Aquinas
College Rabat, in 1956 and graduated licentiate in
theology summa cum laude from the Angelicum, Rome in
1973.
In 1957 Ebejer went to Brazil as missionary in Goias
State. Between 1961 and 1969 he carried pastoral
work in north of Parana and was regional superior of
Maltese Dominicans (1969-1973 The he was appointed
lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University of
Parana, in Curitiba, and at the Studium Theologicum
Catholic University (1972-1976).
On 6th March 1977 Ebejer was consecrated diocesan
bishop of the new dioceses of Uniao da Vitoria, in
Parana. He also lectured in the department of
dogmatic theology in the diocesan seminary of Ponta
Grossa, PR (1978-83) and in Londrina Seminary PR
(1980-82).
Bishop Ebejer was founder, acing rector and lecturer
of ontology and dogmatic theology and ecclesiology
in the Institute of Philosophy and Theology of St.
Albert the great and of the diocesan seminary "Rainha
das Missoes" in Uniao da Vitoria, State of
Parana. He has also been the Episcopal
representative of the Parana Bishops for liturgy at
the National Commission of Liturgy of the National
Conference of Brazilian Bishops since 1991.
Ebejer has published ecclesiological studies about
the laity within the structure of the Church and the
state of theology in Brazil which were published in
the theology journal Teo Comunicacao between 1989
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