Stephen McGill

Stephen McGill PSS (born January 4, 1912 in Glasgow , † November 9, 2005 Glasgow) was a Roman Catholic bishop .

Life

Stephen McGill was born in Glasgow in 1912 to Peter McGill and Charlotte Connolly. He attended St. Aloysius College in Glasgow and later St. Mary's College in Blairs.

From October 1931 McGill attended the Le Grand Seminaire seminary in Coutances , Normandy . On June 29, 1936, he was ordained a priest from Bishop Henry Gray Graham at St. Andrew's Cathedral , Glasgow .

In October of the same year McGill returned to France and began his novitiate with the Sulpizians in Issy-les-Moulineaux . July 1937 was inducted into her order. From October 1937 he attended the theological faculty of the Institut Catholique in Paris. McGill received his Licentiate of Sacred Theology in 1939.

Since Sulpizians are obliged to take part in seminars and the training of priests, McGill was accepted into the teaching staff of Le Grand Seminaire in Bordeaux in October 1939 . In January 1940 he was transferred to Le Grand Seminaire in Aix-en-Provence . Due to the Second World War and the occupation of France, McGill had to flee to the United Kingdom via Marseille in June of the same year .

Upon arriving in Glasgow, McGill was accepted into the teaching staff at Blairs College. After Bishop Kenneth Grant died on September 7, 1959 at the age of 59 and the bishopric became vacant in this way, McGill was on April 4, 1960 by Pope John XXIII. Appointed the new Bishop of Argyll and The Isles . On 22 June 1960 he received by Archbishop Gerald O'Hara , the episcopal ordination .

He was a participant in the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 . During his time as Bishop of Argyll and The Isles, he also devoted himself to the Gaelic language and culture. So he translated liturgical texts into Gaelic.

On July 25, 1968, he was transferred to the Diocese of Paisley , where he was bishop until his resignation on March 30, 1988.

McGill died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 93 in the early morning hours of November 9th, 2005. His funeral took place on November 12th at St. Mirin's Cathedral.

Web links

• Stephen McGill entry on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on May 3, 2018.
• Press release of the Scottish Bishops' Conference on the occasion of the death of Bishop McGill (also contains a short biography)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )

predecessor	Office	successor
James Black	Bishop of Paisley 1968–1988	John Aloysius Mone
Kenneth Grant	Bishop of Argyll and The Isles 1960–1968	Colin Aloysius MacPherson