Background
Agreiter, Anton Josef was born on March 18, 1934 in Brixen, Bozen, Italy. Son of Josef and Maria (Clara) Agreiter. arrived in Falkland Islands, 1986.
Agreiter, Anton Josef was born on March 18, 1934 in Brixen, Bozen, Italy. Son of Josef and Maria (Clara) Agreiter. arrived in Falkland Islands, 1986.
Doctor of Canon Law, Gregorian University, Rome, 1964. Diploma in liturgy, Institute for Liturgy, Trier, Germany, 1969.
Agreiter was born in Saint 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 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 Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha by Pope John Paul II on 1 October 1986.