After leading the region’s Catholics for the past seven years, Bishop William Nolan is to leave the Galloway Diocese for a major role in the church in Scotland.
On Friday, Pope Francis appointed the popular and charismatic 68-year-old as the new Archbishop of Glasgow, succeeding Archbishop Philip Tartaglia who died in January last year. It is the largest of Scotland’s eight Dioceses with an estimated Catholic population of 189,000 with 89 parishes served by 163 priests.
He will be the ninth Archbishop of Glasgow since the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy to Scotland in 1878 and his Mass of Installation will take place in St Andrew’s Cathedral, Glasgow, on Saturday, February 26.
