Msgr. Publius has served in the Diocese of Fort Worth for close to forty years.  He served in Wichita Falls and the Cathedral in Fort Worth.  Later he served as pastor in the parishes in Abbot and Penelope, St Peter the Apostle in White Settlement, as well as St. Thomas Aquinas in Pilot Point and Holy Cross in the Colony. 

Most recently he was on a sabbatical at the Nort American College in Rome. 

He is a native of Malta, an island in the Mediterranean.