Rt. Rev. Philip Tartaglia Ph.B., S.T.D.

Our new Bishop was born at Glasgow on the 11^th January, 1951. He was the eldest son of Guido and Annita Tartaglia and has three brothers and five sisters. After his primary schooling at St. Thomas’, Riddrie, he began his secondary education at St. Mungo’s Academy, Glasgow, before moving to the national junior seminary at St. Vincent’s College, Langbank and, later, St. Mary’s College, Blairs, Aberdeen. His ecclesiastical studies were completed at the Pontifical Scots College, and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

Fr. Philip was ordained Priest by Archbishop Thomas Winning in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Dennistoun on the 30^th June 1975. He then returned to Rome where he completed his ordinary course of studies in 1976 before beginning his research for his Doctorate in Sacred Theology. In 1978 he was additionally appointed as Dean of Studies at the College in Rome, and was also acting Vice-Rector at that time.

On completing his Doctorate in 1980, on the Council of Trent’s teaching on the Eucharist, he was appointed assistant priest at Our Lady of Lourdes, Cardonald, while at the same time becoming an extra-mural lecturer at St. Peter’s College, Newlands, Glasgow.

A year later, he was appointed Lecturer at St. Peter’s College, Newlands, becoming Director of Studies in 1983. When Chesters College, Bearsden, opened in 1985 he was made Vice-Rector. In 1987 he was appointed Rector.

He served as Rector until 1993 when he was sent to St. Patrick’s, Dumbarton, as Assistant Priest before being appointed Parish Priest of St. Mary’s, Duntocher in 1995. In 2004, the Bishops’ Conference asked him to return to seminary as Rector of the Pontifical Scots College, Rome.

On 13^th September 2005, it was announced that Father Philip Tartaglia had been nominated by the Pope Benedict XVI as Bishop of Paisley. On 20th November 2005, the Solemnity of Christ the King, he was ordained at Bishop of Paisley in St. Mirin's Cathedral by Archbishop Mario Conti. The co-consecrating bishops were Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis, Missouri and Bishop John Mone, Emeritus Bishop of Paisley.

Previous Bishops of Paisley
	Rt. Rev. James Black was the first Bishop of Paisley from April 1948 until his death on 29th March 1968 Rt. Rev Stephen McGill, our second Bishop, was translated from Argyll & the Isles on 25th July 1968. He retired on 30th March 1988. He died on 10th November 2005, just ten dates short of the Ordination of the new Bishop Bishop John Mone was translated from Glasgow, where he had been an Auxiliary Bishop on 8th March 1988. He took over pastoral care of the Diocese at the Mass of Chrism that year. He retired on 7th October 2004. Archbishop Mario Conti was appointed by Pope John Paul II as Apostolic Administrator on 7th October 2004. He acted in this capacity until the Ordination of Bishop Tartaglia on 20th November 2005.