Mgr Victor Grech has stepped down as executive director of Church drug rehabilitation agency Caritas.
Mgr Grech, who had set up the agency in Malta back in 1968, will be replaced by Leonid McKay.
He is also retiring from his position as the Archbishop’s delegate on the Social and Charity Work Secretariat, a post that will be taken over by Mgr Charles Cordina.
Mgr Cordina, 65, will promote, coordinate and develop social and charity work at Caritas, homes for the elderly, children’s homes and homes for the disabled.
Mr McKay, 34, has been involved in Caritas for the past nine years, specialising in research on material and social poverty. He was behind several studies presented to the government in the field of social policy.