- Maurice Taylor (bishop)
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Styles of Reference style The Right Reverend Spoken style My Lord Religious style Bishop Posthumous style not applicable Maurice Taylor (born May 5, 1926) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Galloway, Scotland from 1981 until 2004.
Born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire he attended St Cuthbert's Primary, Burnbank, before going on to St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow, and, later, Our Lady's High School, Motherwell.
He studied philosophy at Blairs College, Kincardineshire, from 1942 to 1944 and then served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, at home, in India and in Egypt. He attended the Pontifical Scots College, Rome from 1947 to 1951, studying theology at the Gregorian University and being ordained a priest in Rome on 2 July 1950.
After a year as assistant priest in St Bartholomew's, Coatbridge, he returned to Rome in 1952 where he took his doctorate in theology in 1954. For 10 years from August 1955 he taught philosophy and theology at St Peter's College, Cardross.
From 1965 until 1974 he was rector of the Royal Scots College, Valladolid, Spain. He was ordained Bishop of Galloway by Cardinal Gordon Gray on 9 June 1981. For more than ten years he represented Scotland on the Episcopal Board of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL), and was its chairman from 1997 until 2002. He retired as Bishop in 2004 and was succeeded by John Cunningham.
He has demonstrated an interest in Latin America, particularly the troubled regions of Guatemala and El Salvador. He is vice-president of Progressio.[citation needed]
References
- Maurice Taylor
- The Catholic Directory for Scotland 2004(Glasgow 2004)
Catholic Church titles Preceded by
Joseph Michael McGeeBishop of Galloway
1981–2004Succeeded by
John CunninghamCategories:- 1926 births
- 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops
- 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops
- Bishops of Galloway
- Scottish clergy
- Roman Catholic bishops of Scotland
- Post-Reformation United Kingdom Catholic bishops
- Cancer survivors
- Living people
- Scottish Roman Catholics
- Scottish Roman Catholic priests
- British Army personnel of World War II
- People from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
- People educated at St Aloysius' College, Glasgow
- Royal Army Medical Corps soldiers
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