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William Nolan (born 26 January 1954) is a Scottish prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Glasgow since February 2022. He was previously Bishop of Galloway from 2015 to 2022. Early life
Glasgow did not again become a centre of Catholic life until about the beginning of the 19th century during the process of Catholic Emancipation. The progress of the Industrial Revolution also began to draw to the city and its neighbourhood Catholics from the Scottish Highlands and later, in far greater numbers, from Ireland. The arrival of the ...
Prior to his appointment as bishop, he was a professor at seminaries, as well as an assistant pastor and parish priest in the Archdiocese of Glasgow. He was the eighth Archbishop of Glasgow since the re-establishment of the hierarchy in 1878 following the Reformation. He was described as a conservative in religious and moral issues. [2]
He was assistant priest at St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow (1998–99) and was a on the staff of Scotus College (1999–2004). He continued as a visiting lecturer (2004–09), and was director of Priests for Scotland (2004–12). He was parish priest of St Joseph's, Tollcross, Glasgow (2012–22), and administrator of St Joachim's, Carmyle (2013
According to Thomas Gerard Gallagher, by 1940, "Archbishop Mackintosh was a chronic invalid who was unable to get around his archdiocese or properly supervise its activities." [5] He died in office on 8 December 1943, [3] aged 67. He had been a priest for 43 years and a bishop for 21 years.
The Archdiocese of Glasgow was one of the thirteen (after 1633 fourteen) dioceses of the Scottish church. It was the second largest diocese in the Kingdom of Scotland , including Clydesdale , Teviotdale , parts of Tweeddale , Liddesdale , Annandale , Nithsdale , Cunninghame , Kyle , and Strathgryfe , as well as Lennox , Carrick and the part of ...
Mario Joseph Conti was born on 20 March 1934, in Elgin, Moray, [2] son of Louis Joseph Conti and Josephine Quintilia Conti (née Panicali).He studied for the priesthood at The Scots College, Rome [3] and was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Aberdeen in the Church of San Marcello al Corso, by Archbishop Luigi Traglia on 26 October 1958.
He was named Archbishop of Glasgow in 2002. Home & Garden. Lighter Side