Self-professed archbishop known for ‘healings and exorcisms’ denounced by Rome

A self-professed Catholic bishop and primate has been denounced by the Diocese of Rome as a fraud, following concerns raised by the Diocese of Fatima last year.

Presenting himself as a bishop and primate of an international Catholic prelature called “Saints Peter and Paul”, Salvatore Micalef has organised liturgies which have involved healings and exorcisms in various parts of the world, including both at the famed Marian sanctuary of Fatima in Portugal and in the city of Rome itself.

Born in a small town in southern Italy in 1974, Micalef was ordained to the priesthood by the excommunicated Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo in 2009. The following that he has managed to build has been partly based on his performing purported exorcisms and healings.