{{Short description|Maltese prelate}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Archbishop | honorific-prefix = The Most Reverend | name = Sir Pietro Pace | honorific-suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | title = Bishop of Malta | image = Pietro. Pace.jpg | image_size = 210px | alt = | caption = | church = Roman Catholic | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = Malta | see = | elected = | appointed = 11 February 1889 | term = 1889-1914 | term_start = | quashed = | term_end = 29 July 1914 | predecessor = Carmelo Scicluna | opposed = | successor = Mauro Caruana | other_post = Titular Archbishop of Rhodes <!---------- Orders The Orders section may be omitted in favour of Template:Ordination for those clergy claiming Apostolic succession, such as Catholics, Orthodox and Anglicans. ---------->| ordination = 17 December 1853 | ordained_by = | consecration = 8 April 1877 | consecrated_by = Edward Henry Howard | cardinal = | created_cardinal_by = | rank = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1831|04|09|df=y}} | birth_place = Victoria, Gozo Colony of Malta | death_date = {{Death date and age|1914|07|29|1831|04|09|df=y}} | death_place = Victoria, Gozo Colony of Malta | buried = | nationality = Maltese | religion = Roman Catholic | residence = | parents = | spouse = <!-- or | partner = --> | children = | occupation = | profession = | previous_post = Bishop of Gozo <small>(1877-1889)</small> | education = | alma_mater = | motto = | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = | coat_of_arms_alt = <!---------- Sainthood ----------> | feast_day = | venerated = | saint_title = | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | attributes = | patronage = | shrine = | suppressed_date = <!---------- Other ----------> | other = }}
'''Sir Pietro Pace''' (9 April 1831 – 29 July 1914) was a senior-ranking Maltese prelate who served as the Titular Archbishop of Rhodes and Bishop of Malta from 1889 until his death in 1914.<ref name="morana">{{cite book|last1=Morana|first1=Martin|title=Bejn Kliem u Storja|date=2011|publisher=Books Distributors Limited|location=Malta|isbn=978-99957-0137-6|url=https://sites.google.com/site/kliemustorja/home/titlu/introduzzjoni/dwar-l-awtur/a/b/c/c/d|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005162338/https://sites.google.com/site/kliemustorja/home/titlu/introduzzjoni/dwar-l-awtur/a/b/c/c/d|archivedate=5 October 2016|language=Maltese}}</ref>
==Biography==
Archbishop Pace was born in Rabat (later renamed Victoria) on Gozo on 9 April 1831 and was baptised on the same day in St George's Basilica.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpacep.html |title=Archbishop Pietro Pace [Catholic-Hierarchy] |website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org |access-date=13 February 2014}}</ref> He was ordained a priest in 1853 and was consecrated as the third Bishop of Gozo in the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso in Rome by the English prelate, Edward Henry Cardinal Howard, on 8 April 1877.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gozodiocese.org/bishops/petrus-pace/ |title=Petrus Pace at Gozo Diocese |website=gozodiocese.org |access-date=13 February 2014}}</ref> He served as Gozo's bishop until 1889 when he was transferred to the Bishopric of Malta succeeding Archbishop Carmelo Scicluna. He was also appointed as the Titular Archbishop of Rhodes. He ministered in Malta for 25 years until he died in Victoria, Gozo, 29 July 1914.
<gallery> Pietro Pace 1889.jpg Bishop-Pietro-Pace.jpg Pietro Pace.jpg Mikiel Farrugia, Funeral of Bishop Pietro Pace, 1914.jpg|Funeral of Bishop Pietro Pace </gallery>
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpacep.html ''Catholic Hierarchy''] * [http://gozodiocese.org/bishops/petrus-pace/ ''Diocese of Gozo'']
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