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St Mungo's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish Church in the Townhead area of Glasgow, Scotland. It was built in 1841, with later work done on the church in 1877, and designed by George Goldie . It is situated on the corner of Parson Street and Glebe Street, east of St Mungo's Catholic Primary School and west of the Springburn Road .
St Mungo's Church, Townhead, Glasgow Saint Mungo founded a number of churches during his period as Archbishop of Strathclyde of which Stobo Kirk is a notable example. At Townhead and Dennistoun in Glasgow there is a modern Roman Catholic church and a traditional Scottish Episcopal Church [ 16 ] respectively dedicated to the saint.
2009: Photograph of St Mungo's Parish Church, Google Maps (Street View) 1990: Painting of the old church ruins, BBC & Public Catalog Foundation; 1949: Aerial photograph showing St Mungo's Parish Church, Britain from Above; 1928: Aerofilm showing St Mungo's Parish Church, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS)
In 2015 an apology was issued jointly by the Anglican Church of Canada dioceses of New Westminster and Calgary for failing to report to the police in 1994 a written confession of child sexual abuse by priest Gordon Goichi Nakayama. [7] Nakayama abused over 300 children, mostly boys aged 3–20, over the course of 62 years of ministry.
This refers to the legend of St Mungo and is featured in Glasgow's civic and ecclesiastical heraldry since the sixteenth century. This addition alludes to the fact that Philip Tartaglia is a Glaswegian by birth, that he is a former pupil of St Mungo's Academy and is an ordained priest of the Archdiocese of Glasgow .
In Strathclyde the most important saint was St Kentigern, whose cult (under the pet name St. Mungo) became focused in Glasgow. [10] In Lothian it was St Cuthbert , whose relics were carried across Northumbria after Lindisfarne was sacked by the Vikings before being installed in Durham Cathedral. [ 52 ]
St Mungo's Academy was founded by the Marist Brothers in 1858 at 96 Garngad Hill, [1] Glasgow to educate poor Catholic boys, largely Irish immigrants or their children. The school was named for the patron saint of Glasgow, Saint Mungo, and had ambitions to create a Catholic professional class by educating the boys to secondary level and prepare them for university studies.
The Glasgow-based UVF active service unit responsible for the bombings were arrested, convicted and incarcerated. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] [ 102 ] Experts now believe that only the Provisional Irish Republican Army leadership's veto on bombing operations in Scotland, which were considered counterproductive to many other useful covert operations there ...