Bishop Grech has appointed Fr. Noel Debono as parish associate at the Parish of the Immaculate Conception and St Joseph, Qala. He was born on the 11th of February 1985 and is from the Parish of St Peter and St Paul, Nadur. After having received the priestly ordination on the 13th of June 2010, Fr Noel went to Rome where he took a course at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he obtained a License in Biblical Theology. Over the last four years he was a parish associate at the Parish of the Nativity, Rome.