Agreiter was born in St. Leonhard near
Brixen in Italian's autonomous province of
South Tyrol in a German-speaking peasants family as the youngest, fifteenth son. In the young age he joined a
society of apostolic life of
Mill Hill Missionaries and was ordained as priest on 13 July 1953. In the beginning he was sent to
Uganda before he was appointed Apostolic Prefect of the Falkland Islands and Ecclesiastic Superior of St. Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha by
Pope John Paul II on 1 October 1986, succeeding monsignor
Daniel Spraggon, becoming the third prefect apostolic of the Falkland islands. He oversaw the renovation of
St. Mary's Church in the early 1990s, the altar rails and the statue of the Sacred Heart were removed. Monsignor Agreiter installed a new altar featuring a carving of the Good Shepherd, along with a new crucifix and a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, both sourced from his native South Tyrol. The pews, pulpit, and tabernacle were also replaced. He retired in 2002, succeeded by
Michael Bernard McPartland, and died in 2003 at the age of 69. == References ==