George J. Caruana, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Maltese bishop
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Place of Birth: Sliema, Northern Harbour District, Malta
About George J. Caruana
- George Joseph Caruana (23 April 1882 - 25 March 1951) was a Maltese Archbishop who served as a papal representative to various countries until his death in 1951. Caruana was born in Sliema Malta on the feast of St George, his patron saint, on April 23, 1882.
- He attended the college of St Ignatius in Birkirkara and the Capranica College and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
- He was ordained a priest of Malta in 28 October 1905 by Archbishop Pietro Pace of Malta. In 1907, he was appointed secretary to the Apostolic Delegate in the Philippines, Mgr.
- Ambrose Agius, OSB, and was present at the 1st Provincial Council of Manila in October 1907.
- After a few months in the Apostolic Delegation, he dedicated himself to missionary work, when he laboured among semi-savage pagan tribes.
- After three years he left the Philippines for the USA where he settled in Brooklyn.Caruana was assigned as a parish priest to one of the local parishes in Brooklyn.
- During World War I he became a US chaplain serving in the Panama Canal Zone and Puerto Rico until 1919.
- After the war Caruana became secretary to Dennis Joseph Dougherty, the Archbishop of Philadelphia (who became Cardinal in 1921).
- He served in this post until 1921, when he was appointed as the Bishop of Puerto Rico, which later was renamed as the Diocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico.
- He was consecrated on 28 October 1921 by Cardinal Antonio Vico.
- In 1925 Caruana was appointed as the Apostolic Delegate to México and Apostolic Delegate to Antilles.
- He was assigned the Titular see of Sebastea.
- In 1927 he was also appointed as Apostolic Internuncio to Haiti.
- Three years later he resigned the latter post.
- In 1935 Pope Pius XI appointed him as Apostolic Nuncio to Cuba.
- He maintained this post until April 26, 1947.
- Archbishop Caruana died on Easter Sunday 25 March 1951 in Merion, Pennsylvania.
- He was buried in McAuley Convent Chapel Cemetery in Merion, Pennsylvania.
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