Sister Carmen Sammut is the former leader of the

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(UISG) and the superior general of the

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, known as the White Sisters. She is a

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Biography

In May 2013, Sammut was elected as the new president of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG). Carmen Sammut is Maltese. She spent 28 years as a teacher in Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania. She speaks fluent Maltese, English, French and Arabic. In 2011, she became

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of her order.

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Living people Maltese Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns Superiors general Maltese Roman Catholic missionaries Female Roman Catholic missionaries Missionary educators Roman Catholic missionaries in Algeria Roman Catholic missionaries in Tunisia Roman Catholic missionaries in Mauritania Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Christian nuns {{RC-bio-stub

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