Redento Maria Gauci, O. Carm. (27 December 1920 – 10 February 1978) was a Maltese Carmelite bishop who became the Prelate of Chuquibamba in

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. Gauci was born on in

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on 27 December 1920. In 1943 he was ordained a priest of the

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by Bishop Emanuel Galea. Gauci was one of the founders of the community in

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where they established a church dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel which later eventually became a parish in 1965. In 1949 Father Gauci left for Peru with another Carmelite priest. They became the first Maltese Carmelite missionaries in Latin America. In 1962 he was appointed as the first Prelate of the Territorial Prelature of Chuquibamba in

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"Bishop Redento Maria Gauci, O. Carm."
Retrieved on 28 February 2014. He was consecrated bishop by Archbishop

Mikiel Gonzi Sir Michael Count Gonzi, (born Mikiel Gonzi: 13 May 1885 – 22 January 1984), was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Malta from 1944 until 1976. He had been enthroned as Bishop of Malta in December 1943, and was consecrated as the first Archbish ...

of Malta. Gauci participated, as a council father, in all four of the

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sessions. In 1967 he was given the titular see of Ida in Mauretania. He resigned as Prelate of Chuquibamba in 1977 due to ill health and traveled back to

and died a year later on 10 February 1978 at the age of 57.

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