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New Scottish archbishop
Succeeding the late Cardinal Winning
Pope John Paul II has appointed Bishop Mario Conti of Aberdeen to lead the Catholic Church in Scotland as the new Archbishop of Glasgow, succeeding Cardinal Thomas Winning, who died last year.
Archbishop-elect Conti was formally installed at a Mass at St. Andrew’s Cathedral on February 22. Some 750,000 Catholics, many of them tracing their roots back to Irish immigrants in the 18th and 19th centuries, live in Scotland, mostly in the west coast city of Glasgow.
“It is a great honor to be nominated Archbishop of Glasgow. I accept the challenge confident of the support of the clergy and the welcome of the faithful of the Archdiocese,” Archbishop Conti said. The Scottish prelate’s family originated in northern Tuscany in Italy, but his grandfather immigrated to Scotland in 1888, becoming a candy maker.