Career
Born in Marsa, Malta, Baldcchino was ordained to the priesthood for the Friars Minor Capuchins on March 18, 1961. He went on a mission in Kenya in 1974. Between 1984 and 1990 he was Superior of the Capuchin mission in Kenya.
On June 2, 2000, Pope John Paul II appointed Baldacchino bishop and he was ordained on September 2, 2000.
In 2010 he returned to Malta for medical treatment. He died a month later on October 9.
His funeral took place in Street John"s Company-Cathedral on October 13 and was buried in the Addolorata cemetery in Paola, Malta. In 2011 his body was exhumed and reburied in Floriana.