Michael McPartland

Michael Bernard McPartland SMA ( born September 29, 1939 in Middlesbrough, England ) is a Roman Catholic priest and Apostolic Prefect of the Apostolic since 2002 Falkland Islands or Malvinas Prefecture, as well as superior of the mission sui juris St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.

Life

McPartland in 1939, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, was born in the North East, in Middlesbrough. At the age of 15 he left school and worked for five years as a salesman before he joined the British Army in 1960 and served as a soldier for eleven years. Then McPartland worked until 1973 for British Rail and joined in the same year of the Congregation of the Société missionnaires d' Afrique ( SMA). On May 14 In 1978 his ordination. McPartland was then sent to the north of Nigeria. In 1982 he was called back to the UK and took over for the next 16 years administrative tasks. June 2001 McPartland was sent to Nairobi, Kenya, before Pope John Paul II appointed him in August 2002 finally sui juris to the Superior of the Mission of St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and prefect of the Apostolic Prefecture of the Falkland Islands or Malvinas.