Paolo Micallef (15 May 1818 - 8 March 1883) was a Maltese prelate who served as Archbishop of Pisa from 1871 until his death in 1883. Pawlu Micallef was born in Valletta Malta on 15 May 1818. He joined the Augustinian Order and was ordained priest on 6 March 1841.

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appointed him as Vicar General of the Order in 1855. He was confirmed later in 1859. He served in this post until 1865. On 21 December 1863 Micallef was appointed as the Bishop of Città di Castello in Umbria. He was consecrated bishop on 10 January 1864 in Rome by Cardinal Costantino Patrizi Naro. In 1866, he was appointed as the Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Gozo in Malta after the death of its bishop, Michael Francis Buttigieg. He held this post for two years until Antonio Grech Delicata was appointed as the new bishop of

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. In 1871 Bishop Micallef was appointed as the Archbishop of Pisa, replacing Cosimo Corsi after his death He was one of the bishops who participated in the

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which began in 1869 till 1870. Archbishop Micallef died in

Pisa Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the cit ...

on 8 March 1883 and was buried in the Cathedral.

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, ''L'attività pastorale del vescovo Paolo Micaleff a Città di Castello'', in «Analecta Augustiniana», 65, Roma, Institutum historicum Ord. S. Augustini, 2002
Catholic Hierarchy

Diocese of Gozo
1818 births 1883 deaths Roman Catholic archbishops of Pisa 19th-century Maltese Roman Catholic priests People from Valletta 19th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops {{Italy-bishop-stub