Stephen McGill

Stephen McGill PSS ( born January 4, 1912 in Glasgow, † November 9, 2005 Glasgow ) was a Roman Catholic bishop.

Stephen McGill was born in 1912 in Glasgow, the son of Peter McGill and Charlotte Connolly. He attended the St. Aloysius College in Glasgow and later the St. Mary 's College, Blairs.

Since October 1931 McGill attended the seminary Le Grand Seminaire in Coutances in Normandy. On June 29, 1936, he received at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow by Bishop Henry Grey Graham ordination.

In October of the same year McGill returned to France and entered the novitiate at at the Sulpician in Issy -les -Moulineaux. July 1937 was taken up in their order. As of October 1937, he attended the Faculty of Theology of the Institut Catholique in Paris. His Licentiate of Sacred Theology received McGill in 1939.

Since Sulpician are required in seminars and the training of priests to act, McGill in October 1939, was admitted to the teaching body of the Le Grand Seminaire in Bordeaux. January 1940 he was transferred to the Le Grand Seminaire in Aix -en- Provence. Due to the Second World War and the occupation of France, McGill had to flee in June of the same year over Marseille in the United Kingdom.

After his arrival in Glasgow McGill was inducted into the teaching body of the Blairs College. After Bishop Kenneth Grant died at the age of 59 years on September 7, 1959, and the bishop's seat was vacant in this way, McGill on April 4, 1960 by Pope John XXIII. appointed as the new Bishop of Argyll and The Isles. On 22 June 1960 he received by Archbishop Gerald Patrick O'Hara episcopal ordination. In this capacity he took from 1962 to 1965 at the Second Vatican Council in part. During his time as Bishop of Argyll and The Isles, he also devoted himself to the Gaelic language and culture. So he translated liturgical texts into Gaelic.

On July 25, 1968 it was transferred to the Diocese of Paisley, where he was bishop in 1988 until his resignation on March 30.

McGill died at the age of 93 years peacefully in his sleep in the early morning hours of November 9, 2005. His funeral took place at St Mirin 's Cathedral on 12 November.