Thomas Winning | |
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| Cardinal,Archbishop of Glasgow | |
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| Church | RomanCatholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Glasgow |
| Appointed | 23 April 1974 |
| Term ended | 17 June 2001 |
| Predecessor | James Donald Scanlan |
| Successor | Mario Joseph Conti |
| Other post | Cardinal-priest of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte |
| Previous posts | Auxiliary Bishop ofGlasgow andTitular Bishop ofLugmad (1971–1974) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 18 December 1948 (Priest) |
| Consecration | 30 November 1971 (Bishop) by James Donald Scanlan |
| Created cardinal | 26 November 1994 byPope John Paul II |
| Rank | Cardinal-priest |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Thomas Joseph Winning 3 June 1925 |
| Died | 17 June 2001 (aged 76) Glasgow, Scotland |
| Buried | Crypt ofSt. Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow |
| Parents | Thomas Winning and Agnes Winning (née Canning) |
| Alma mater | Our Lady's High School,Motherwell |
| Motto | Caritas Christi urget nos |
| Coat of arms |  |
Thomas Joseph WinningFRSEFEIS (3 June 1925 – 17 June 2001) was a ScottishCardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served asArchbishop of Glasgow from 1974 and President of theBishops' Conference of Scotland from 1985 until his death. Winning was elevated to thecardinalate in 1994.
Tom Winning was the oldest child of two born to a devout Roman Catholic family inWishaw,Lanarkshire. His father, the son of an Irish immigrant fromCounty Donegal, had worked as a coal-miner, served in theFirst World War, and was then employed in thesteel industry.[1] On losing his job, his father invested in machinery for making boiled sweets which he sold around the houses in the district as a way of bringing in money for his family. Winning attended St Patrick's Primary, Shieldmuir,Craigneuk. He served as analtar boy[2] and chorister. Then, while at Our Lady's High School,Motherwell, he expressed the desire to become a priest.
Winning was appointed toSt Peter's Seminary, Bearsden, at age 17.[3][4] He began training in Saint Mary's College, Blairs,Aberdeen, where philosophy students of St Peter's were temporarily being housed and taught and then moved to St Peter's, Bearsden. When a fire in Bearsden destroyed the seminary during renovation works, the entire college community was moved from there toSt Joseph's College,Mill Hill, London. After the war ended, he was part of the first group of students to be sent to re-populate theScots College in Rome. The college had been empty of students since 1939. He was ordained in theChurch of St John Lateran, in Rome, on 18 December 1948 for theDiocese of Motherwell.
His first appointment was as an assistant (curate) at St. Aloysius, Chapelhall,Lanarkshire, but after a year he returned to Rome to studyCanon Law, gaining in 1953 aDoctor of Canon Law (J.C.D.). Thereafter, he wascurate in St Mary's Church inHamilton from 1953-57 and from 1956 priest-secretary to BishopJames Donald Scanlan of Motherwell. After a period in Our Lady of Good Aid Cathedral inMotherwell from 1957-58, he became Chaplain to theFranciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Bothwell until 1961. At this point, he became Spiritual Director at the Pontifical Scots College. Soon after his arrival in Rome, theSecond Vatican Council was convened and he was therefore uniquely placed to be involved with the bishops during those historic years of the various Sessions of the council. At the same time, he continued his studies becoming an advocate of theSacred Roman Rota in 1965. In the late-1960s, after his return to Scotland, he was appointed minute secretary for the meetings of theBishops' 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]
On 22 October 1971, Winning was nominated to theepiscopacy, asAuxiliary Bishop to theArchbishop of Glasgow, being consecratedTitular Bishop ofLugmad on 30 November 1971 and three years later on 23 April 1974, succeeded Archbishop Scanlan when he was translated to theMetropolitan see of Glasgow. In 1975, he became the first Roman CatholicArchbishop to address theGeneral Assembly of the Church of Scotland in the history of that Church. After his appointment to theCollege 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 businessmanBrian Souter, against the repeal ofSection 28) and ecclesiastical matters such as the celibacy of priests. He challenged theAct of Settlement. He also began a scheme to give financial support to young mothers, as an alternative to abortion. He rejected a plan to renovate and extendSt Andrew's Cathedral, as the money would be better spent on the poor of the Archdiocese. He played a major role in bringingPope John Paul II to the UK in 1982, a visit that was almost called off because of theFalklands Conflict that coincided with the scheduled 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 any Pope.[3][4]
On 26 November 1994, he was elevated to theCollege of Cardinals byPope John Paul II and appointedcardinal-priest ofSant'Andrea delle Fratte. Winning was only the second cardinal since theReformation to be based in Scotland. He was awarded honorary degrees from the universities ofAberdeen (LL.D. 1996),Glasgow (DD, 1983) andStrathclyde (D. Univ, 1992);Glasgow University made him an honorary Professor in theFaculty ofDivinity in 1996. He was appointed by Pope John Paul II to thePontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity and to thePontifical Council for the Family, November 1994 until his death.[3][4]
Thomas Winning died in office in June 2001, following a heart attack and is interred in the crypt ofSt Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow.[3][4] His successor as Archbishop of Glasgow wasMario Conti.[5]
In June 2011, two separate schools inGlasgow combined into one new school located inTollcross which they voted to call Cardinal Winning after the lateArchbishop 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 inGlasgow.[6]
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| Preceded by | — TITULAR — Bishop ofLugmad 1971–1974 | Succeeded by John Joseph Gerry |
| Preceded by | Archbishop of Glasgow 1974–2001 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Cardinal Priest ofSant'Andrea delle Fratte 1994–2001 | Succeeded by |
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