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He was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Galloway by Pope Francis on 22 December 2023, and received episcopal consecration on 9 March 2024 at St Peter-in-Chains, Ardrossan. [2] The principal consecrator was Archbishop Leo Cushley of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh and the principal co-consecrators were Archbishop William Nolan of Glasgow and ...
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
On 22 December 2023, Frank Dougan, a priest of the diocese, was appointed Bishop of Galloway. [5] Bishops Nolan, Taylor and Dougan are all former parish priests of Our Lady of Lourdes, East Kilbride who later became Bishops of Galloway. In 2016 Fr. John Farrell, retired priest of the Diocese of Motherwell, [6] the last Head teacher at St Ninian ...
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The Diocese of Galloway (Latin: Dioecesis Candidae Casae o Gallovidianus) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Scotland.The pre-Reformation Diocese of Galloway, founded by Ninian in the fifth century, had broken allegiance with Rome in 1560, and disappeared in 1689 in the (official) Church of Scotland but continued in the Episcopal Church of Scotland.
Diocese of Glasgow: 1724–1733: Alexander Duncan: 1733–1805: See administered by the Bishops of Edinburgh: 1805–1809: William Abernethy Drummond: Previously Bishop of Edinburgh 1788–1805. 1809–1837: See administered by the Bishops of Edinburgh: Since 1837, the see is part of the united Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway. Source(s): [1] [2]
The Cathedral Church of Saint Margaret, also known as Ayr Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Ayr, Scotland.It is the seat of the Bishop of Galloway, and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Galloway.
The Bishop of Galloway, also called the Bishop of Whithorn, is the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Galloway, said to have been founded by Saint Ninian in the mid-5th century. The subsequent Anglo-Saxon bishopric was founded in the late 7th century or early 8th century, and the first known bishop was one Pehthelm, "shield of the Picts".