Monsignor John Joseph Pardo has been installed as Vicar General of the Catholic diocese of Gibraltar.

During the 10:30 Mass at the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned on Sunday, which was presided by Bishop Carmel Zammit, Monsignor Pardo made the required canonical Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity.

The Vicar General is the Bishop’s deputy and participates in the exercise of that executive and administrative authority over the whole diocese. 

Father Pardo graduated as a teacher in Physics and Maths in 1988 and obtained a Master of Science postgraduate degree in Radiation Physics in 1989. Subsequently, he began formation for the Catholic Priesthood at the Venerable English College in Rome. He obtained his degree in Theology and later a Licentiate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Gregorian University, prior to his Priestly Ordination in Gibraltar by Bishop Devlin in 1995. He obtained his Doctorate in Canon Law in 1998. He was then assigned to various pastoral roles in the Diocese until 2003, when the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales appointed him as Vice-Rector of the Royal and Pontifical English College of St. Alban in Valladolid, Spain, which has been forming Catholic priests for the Church in England and Wales since 1589. In 2011 he was appointed Rector of St. Alban’s. Father Pardo completed his tenure there at the end of this last academic year, June 2107, and has returned to Gibraltar to undertake this new role assigned to him by Bishop Zammit.