Michael Fava
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Michael Paul Dare Fava CBE QHC (born 1962) is a British Catholic priest and former British Army chaplain. From 2018 to 2020, he served as Deputy Chaplain General of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department: he is the first Roman Catholic to hold the post.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Fava was born in 1962 in Kampala, Uganda, before moving to the United Kingdom in 1970.[2] He was educated at Salesian College, Farnborough, an independent Catholic school.[3] He studied theology at the University of Oxford and then pastoral theology at the University of London.[2]
Fava entered the Order of Saint Benedict in 1980, and was ordained to the priesthood on 8 July 1989.[4][5] He was commissioned into the British Army as a chaplain in 1997.[4][6] In 2004, he moved from the Benedictines to become a secular priest affiliated with the Diocese of Portsmouth.[4] He appointed Deputy Chaplain-General to Her Majesty's Land Forces Army in November 2018,[1] and promoted to the rank of deputy chaplain general (equivalent to brigadier) on 30 June 2019.[7]
On 5 July 2017, Fava was appointed an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen (QHC).[8] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours.[9]
Fava retired from the British Army on 30 October 2020.[10] In late 2021, he joined St Joseph's Church, Newbury, Berkshire, in the Diocese of Portsmouth, as parish priest.[11][12]
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- 1962 births
- Living people
- 20th-century British Roman Catholic priests
- Former Benedictines
- Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers
- Honorary chaplains to the King
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- British Army brigadiers
- 21st-century British Roman Catholic priests
- People educated at Salesian College, Farnborough