Mark Fabian Montebello was born at Sliema (Malta) in 1964. He entered the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) in 1980 and was ordained a priest of the Catholic Church in 1989.

Montebello first undertook higher education at St Thomas Aquinas College, Rabat, Malta with the Maltese Dominicans (1984-85; 1986-87), graduating as Lector of Philosophy and Theology (1989) with the thesis De Missione Christianorum (partly published in London, Montreux and Washington in 1994 with the same title). He also studied at the Faculty of Theology, Tal-Virtù, Rabat, Malta (1985-86; 1987-88), and the University of Malta (1988-89) from where he graduated as Bachelor of Theology (1989). Montebello pursued post-graduate studies in ancient and scholastic philosophy at the Angelicum Pontifical University, Rome, Italy (1989-91), graduating with the dissertation Plato and the Open Society (1991). At the same university he continued to study Plato (1991-92), graduating as Doctor of Philosophy (1993) with the thesis Plato's Philosophy of Madness (published in 1998 as A Philosophy of Madness). He studied Aristotle at the Complutense University, Madrid (1994-95). At the University of Malta Montebello was visiting lecturer in ancient (1991-94) and Maltese (1995) philosophy, reader in Thomistic studies and metaphysics (with Prof. P. Serracino Inglott and Dr J. Haldane; 1991-92), monitor for the establishment of the Institute of Thomistic Studies (1992-94), and lecturer in ancient and medievel philosophy at the Institute of Religious Studies (1991-93). At present he continues to be an external lecturer at the University of Malta and teaches philosophy at the Corradino Civil Prisons (from 1997) where he was also a member of the Prison Board of Visitors (1997-98).

Montebello is the founder of the organisation Daritama in Bormla (Cospicua) at the Cottonera district in Malta (1995) where he runs a community radio service, Radju Kottoner 98FM (begun in 1996), and is monitor for the establishment of a national victim support service called Victim Support Malta (from 1997) for victims of crime. He is a member of an organisation of prisoners and volunteers, Mid-Dlam ghad-Dawl (from 1995).

He has been familiar to television and radio broadcasting services in Malta since 1982, and (from 1992) regularly contributes articles in Maltese or in English (mainly on philosophy and on social issues) in local pulbications and journals.

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Montebello presently resides at:

Annunciation Priory, Main Gate Street, Birgu (Vittoriosa), Cottonera CSP08. MALTA (Europe)
Tel.: (+356) 9942 8984, (+356) 2182 5198 (am), (+356) 2180 1204 (pm); Fax./rec.: (+356) 2180 1205.

montebello@gmail.com

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