Thomas Winning

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Titular Bishop of Lugmad (1971–1974)
Alma materOur Lady's High School, Motherwell
MottoCaritas Christi urget nos
Coat of armsThomas Winning's coat of arms

Thomas Joseph Winning

cardinalate
in 1994.

Early years

Tom Winning was the oldest child of two born to a devout Roman Catholic family in

Motherwell
, he expressed the desire to become a priest.

Priesthood

Winning was appointed to

Church of St John Lateran, in Rome, on 18 December 1948 for the Diocese of Motherwell
.

His first appointment was as an assistant (

Sacred Roman Rota in 1965. In the late 1960s, after his return to Scotland, he was appointed minute secretary for the meetings of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland.[3][4]

In 1966 he was called back to Scotland where he was appointed to his first charge as Parish Priest in Saint Luke's,

Motherwell, where he remained until 1970 when he was appointed as the first Officialis of the newly formed Scottish National Tribunal.[3][4]

Episcopate

On 22 October 1971 he was nominated to the

Auxiliary Bishop to the Archbishop of Glasgow, being consecrated Titular Bishop of Lugmad on 30 November 1971 and three years later on 23 April 1974 succeeded Archbishop Scanlan when he was translated to the Metropolitan see of Glasgow. In 1975 he became the first Roman Catholic Archbishop to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in the history of that Church. After his appointment to the College of Cardinals (see below), he was invited once again to address the General Assembly.[3][4]

Winning was often outspoken, and unafraid to publicly expound the Roman Church's understanding of moral matters such as abortion and homosexuality (becoming a supporter of a campaign in 2000, led by businessman

Falklands Conflict that coincided with the visit. Winning is thought to have convinced the Pope to continue with the visit which was the first official visit to the United Kingdom by a Pontiff.[3][4]

Cardinalate

On 26 November 1994, he was elevated to the

Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity and to the Pontifical Council for the Family, November 1994 until his death.[3][4]

Death

Thomas Winning died in office in June 2001, following a heart attack and is interred in the crypt of

Mario Conti.[5]

In June 2011, two separate schools in Glasgow combined into one new school located in Tollcross which they voted to call Cardinal Winning after the late Archbishop of Glasgow. The new Cardinal Winning Secondary opened on Tuesday, 21 June 2011 and contains pupils from St Joan of Arc and St Aidan's, two schools located in Glasgow.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Bertie Ahern's Address to the Scottish Parliament". Parliamentary News Release. The Scottish Parliament. 20 June 2001. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  2. ^ Seenan, Gerard. "Scotland's turbulent priest", The Guardian, 18 August 2000
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Miranda, Salvador. "Thomas Joseph Winning". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Thomas Joseph "Cardinal" Winning". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  5. ^ "Archbishop Mario Joseph Conti". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  6. ^ "New school has that Winning feeling". SCO News. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

External links

The Scotsman 'Great Scots' [1]

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by — TITULAR —
Bishop of Lugmad
1971–1974 		Succeeded by
John Joseph Gerry
Preceded by
James Donald Scanlan
 Archbishop of Glasgow
1974–2001 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Cardinal Priest of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte

1994–2001 		Succeeded by
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