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Michael Franciscus Buttigieg (3 November 1793 – 12 July 1866) was a Maltese prelate who became the first Bishop of Gozo in 1864.Buttigieg was born on November 3 1793 in Qala Gozo Malta. He was ordained priest on December 21 1816. Some years later in 1863 he was appointed as the Auxiliary Bishop of Malta. He was consecrated by the Italian Cardinal Niccola Clarelli Parracciani on May 3 1863 in the church of Santissima Trinità Montecitorio in Rome.
