Antonius Grech Delicata Testaferrata (21 February 1823 - 31 December 1876) was a Maltese bishop who became the second Bishop of Gozo in 1868. Grech Delicata Testaferrata was born in

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on February 21, 1823, and was baptized in the

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. He was ordained priest of the Diocese of Malta on October 19, 1845.

Episcopacy

In 1867 Pope Pius IX appointed him as the Titular Bishop of Calydon. Grech Delicata Testaferrata was consecrated by Cardinal

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on July 14, 1867, in the chapel of

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. On November 16 of the same year he was appointed as the Apostolic Administrator of Gozo. He succeeded Paolo Micallef as administrator who was later was appointed as

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in 1871. The see of

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was vacant for two years after the death of its bishop Michael Franciscus Buttigieg. It was in 1868 that Bishop Grech Delicata Testaferrata was appointed as the official bishop of the Bishop of Gozo."Bishop Antonius Grech-Delicata-Testaferrata"
''Catholic Hierarchy''. Retrieved on 31 March 2014. He was formally installed in the cathedral on January 24, 1869. He spent the remaining seven years as the Bishop of Gozo until 31 December 1876 when he died in

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