Michael Fava

Michael Paul Dare Fava (born 1962) is a British Catholic priest and former British Army chaplain. From 2018 to 2020, he served as Deputy Chaplain General of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department: he is the first Roman Catholic to hold the post.

Biography Fava was born in 1962 in Kampala, Uganda, before moving to the United Kingdom in 1970. He was educated at Salesian College, Farnborough, an independent Catholic school. He studied theology at the University of Oxford and then pastoral theology at the University of London. He was commissioned into the British Army as a chaplain in 1997. In 2004, he moved from the Benedictines to become a secular priest affiliated with the Diocese of Portsmouth.

On 5 July 2017, Fava was appointed an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen (QHC). He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours.

Fava retired from the British Army on 30 October 2020. In late 2021, he joined St Joseph's Church, Newbury, Berkshire, in the Diocese of Portsmouth, as parish priest.