Scottish Catholic Observer

Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow will introduce the new archbishop-elect at 11am (noon Rome time) at the Gillis Centre in Edinburgh. The archbishop-elect will then deliver his first message to the Archdiocese. He is expected to be officially installed as archbishop at a Mass to be celebrated at St Mary’s Cathedral (above) within three months.

Archbishop Tartaglia, president of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, was named as Apostolic administrator of St Andrews and Edinburgh after Cardinal Keith O’Brien stepped down as archbishop earlier this year.

Three of Scotland’s eight dioceses—Motherwell, Paisley and Dunkeld—still await Vatican-appointed bishops to be named and Bishop John Cunningham of Galloway Diocese submitted his resignation when he turned 75 this year, as required by Canon law.