Background
Ebejer was born in Dingli Malta on August 3, 1929.
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Walter Ebejer
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Education
In 1956 he graduated in philosophy and theology from Street Thomas Aquinas College in Rabat and later, in 1973, he graduated and acquired his licence in theology summa cum laude from the Angelicum in Rome.
Career
From 1977 to 2007 he served as Bishop of União da Vitória in Brazil. In 1957 Ebejer went to Brazil as missionary in the state of Goiáson Later he was appointed lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana and at the Studium Theologicum Catholic University.
He also became the parish priest at Matinhos which has some 50 kilometres of shore.
He served in this post until 1976. In 1976 Pope Paul VI appointed Ebejer as the first bishop of the Diocese of União da Vitória.
On the 6 of March 1977 he was consecrated bishop by Archbishop Carmine Rocco, the then Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil. After 37 years as shepherd of the diocese he retired at the age of 77, in January 2007.
