Monsignor Anton Agreiter,
MHM (18 March 1934 − 15 October 2003) was a
Catholic priest who served as the
Apostolic Prefect
An apostolic prefect or prefect apostolic is a priest who heads what is known as an apostolic prefecture, a 'pre-diocesan' missionary jurisdiction where the Catholic Church is not yet sufficiently developed to have it made a diocese. Although it ...
of the
Falkland Islands and
Ecclesiastic Superior of
St. Helena,
Ascension Island
Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56′ south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is about from the coast of Africa and from the coast of South America. It is governed as part of the British Overseas Territory o ...
and
Tristan da Cunha since 1986 to 2002.
Life
Agreiter was born in St. Leonhard near
Brixen in Italian's autonomous province of
South Tyrol in a German-speaking peasants family as the youngest, fifteenth son. In the young age he joined a
society of apostolic life of
Mill Hill Missionaries
The Mill Hill Missionaries (MHM), officially known as the Saint Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill ( la, Societas Missionariorum S. Ioseph de Mill Hill), is a Catholic society of apostolic life founded in 1866 by Herbert Alfred Vaughan, MH ...
and was ordained as priest on 13 July 1958. In the beginning he was sent to
Uganda before he was appointed Apostolic Prefect of the Falkland Islands and Ecclesiastic Superior of St. Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha by
Pope John Paul II on 1 October 1986.
References
1934 births
2003 deaths
People from St. Leonhard in Passeier
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests
21st-century Roman Catholic priests
Falkland Islands Roman Catholics
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