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Mgr. George Bugeja OFM was born in Xagħra, Gozo, Malta in 1962. He entered the Franciscan Order and made his solemn profession in 1983. He was then ordained priest on the 5th July 1986.

He embarked on his priestly ministry in Gozo and has served as a superior of various Franciscan communities in Malta and Parish Priest in Sliema.

He was provincial secretary for missions and evangelisation and secretary for formation.

He served as auditor of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of the Gozo diocese.

From 2010 till March 2015 he was an official within the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples at the Vatican in Rome.

Mgr. George Bugeja, OFM, has been appointed by Pope Francis coadjutor bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Tripoli on the 10th July 2015 and was ordained Bishop on the 4th September 2015. He started residing in Tripoli on the 22nd October of that same year.

On the 15th February 2016, Pope Francis nominated him as Apostolic Administrator for the Catholic Vicariate of Benghazi in Libya.

On the 5th February 2017 he succeeded as Vicar Apostolic of the Catholic Vicariate of Tripoli after the resignation of Bishop Giovanni Martinelli OFM.