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Filippo "Philip" Tartaglia (11 January 1951 – 13 January 2021) was a Scottish
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who served as a
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of the
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. He served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow from 2012 until 2021. He previously served as
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. Prior to his appointment as bishop, he was a professor at seminaries, as well as an assistant pastor and parish priest in the Archdiocese of Glasgow. He was the eighth Archbishop of Glasgow since the re-establishment of the hierarchy in 1878 following the
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. He was described as a conservative in religious and moral issues.


Early life

Tartaglia was born in
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on 11 January 1951. He was the eldest son of Guido and Annita Tartaglia, and had three brothers and five sisters. One of his brothers also served as a priest in Glasgow. He was of Italian descent. After completing his primary schooling at St Thomas',
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, he began his secondary education at St. Mungo's Academy, Glasgow. He attended minor seminary at St Vincent's College,
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and, later, St Mary's College, Blairs, near
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. His ecclesiastical studies were completed at the Pontifical Scots College, and the
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in Rome. On 30 June 1975, Tartaglia was ordained to the Catholic priesthood at the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel in
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by
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, the
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at the time.


Presbyteral ministry

Tartaglia subsequently returned to Rome where he completed his ordinary course of studies in 1976, before beginning research for his doctorate in Sacred Theology. He was appointed dean of studies at the Scots College in Rome in 1978, and was also acting vice-rector at that time. After obtaining his STD degree two years later, on the
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's teaching on the
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, he received his first pastoral assignment as assistant priest at Our Lady of Lourdes,
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. He concurrently held the position of extramural lecturer at St. Peter's College,
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, Glasgow. A year later, Tartaglia was appointed lecturer at St. Peter's College, becoming director of studies in 1983. When Chesters College,
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, opened in 1985 he was made vice-rector. In 1987 he was appointed
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. Tartaglia served as rector until 1993 when he was sent to St. Patrick's,
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, as assistant priest before being appointed parish priest of St Mary's,
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in 1995. In 2004 the Bishops' Conference of Scotland asked him to return to seminary as rector of the Pontifical Scots College, Rome.


Episcopal ministry

Tartaglia was appointed the fourth Bishop of Paisley on 13 September 2005. The see had been vacant since October of the previous year, when John Mone retired after sixteen years. He was
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on 20 November 2005, at
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in Paisley.
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, the
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, served as the principal consecrator, with
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and Mone being co-consecrators. Tartaglia attacked UK law relating to the family in 2006. He outlined his opinion that the
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– which made
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quicker and easier –
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legislation giving homosexual relationships legal status, and the
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– which allowed people to change their gender designation – would undermine the family in society. He stated, "Unfortunately, in our times, the minds of many have been so darkened by hubris and by the selfish pursuit of their own gratification that they have lost sight of the natural law which God has written into his creation...". He reiterated this stance in 2010, when he wrote to
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to insist that "the Catholic Church will not register civil partnerships nor celebrate same-sex unions: not now, not in the future, not ever, no matter what legislation or regulations your government enacts or endorses." He also criticised the UK government's decision to upgrade its
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s capability. As president of the National Communications Commission of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland, Tartaglia wrote to every parish in Scotland in May 2008, decrying the media for pushing a "secular and humanistic agenda". Arguing his belief that "over two-thirds" of Scots are actually Christians, and that the proportion of people who work in the media does not reflect this, he wrote that this led to a "fundamental disconnection between the provider and the consumer". Tartaglia was mooted by some commentators in 2008 as a possible successor to the see of Westminster. Archbishop
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was appointed. Tartaglia was appointed the
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on 24 July 2012, succeeding Archbishop Mario Conti. He was installed at St Andrew's Cathedral on 8 September of that same year. He received the
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from
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at a Mass in
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on 29 June 2013. Pope Benedict XVI appointed Tartaglia as the
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of the
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on 27 February 2013, holding the post until
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was enthroned on 21 September 2013 as
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. Tartaglia died on 13 January 2021, two days after his 70th birthday. He had been
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at his home in Glasgow after testing positive for
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in late December 2020 during the
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.


Views


LGBT issues

In April 2012, at a conference on religious freedom and tolerance at
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, Tartaglia spoke of the death of "a gay Catholic MP who died at the age of 44", a likely reference to David Cairns, whose death from
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he said was potentially due to his sexuality. He went on to imply that the connection was being avoided, saying "...nobody said anything... and why his body should just shut down at that age, obviously he could have had a disease which would have killed anyone, but you seem to hear so many stories about this kind of thing, but society won't address it". Cairns's partner Dermot Kehoe criticised Tartaglia for making a claim which was contradicted by the medical evidence, and for adding to the grief suffered by the family of the deceased. He accused Tartaglia of prejudice, homophobia and ignorance and called for him to apologise.


Handling of clergy sex abuse

In August 2015, Tartaglia commented at a Mass:


Coat of arms

Tartaglia's arms are an allusion to the
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as recounted in the
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. The two apostles
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and
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are singled out by name in this account. The two fish which are crossed in
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in reference to the cross of St Andrew are surrounded by five barley loaves. One fish has a gold ring in its mouth. This refers to the legend of St Mungo and is featured in Glasgow's civic and ecclesiastical heraldry since the sixteenth century. This addition alludes to the fact that Philip Tartaglia is a
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by birth, that he is a former pupil of St Mungo's Academy and is an ordained priest of the
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. Conforming to
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rules, the colours that feature in the arms – green, white and red – correspond to the
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, in reference to the bishop's family origins and to the years spent in Rome at the Pontifical Scots College, first as an undergraduate and post-graduate student, from 1969 to 1980, and ultimately as rector from May 2004 until November 2005, when he was ordained bishop. Tartaglia's
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, taken from the
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'' O Salutaris Hostia'' by
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, is ''Da Robur, Fer Auxilium'' ("Thine aid supply, thy strength bestow").


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tartaglia, Philip 1951 births 2021 deaths 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Scotland Scottish people of Italian descent Roman Catholic bishops of Paisley Roman Catholic archbishops of Glasgow Pontifical Gregorian University alumni People educated at St Mungo's Academy Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland