Vatican
City, 24 July 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father:
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appointed Msgr. Leo Cushley as metropolitan archbishop of Saint.
Andrews and Edinburgh (area 5,504, population 1,533,000, Catholics
115,900, priests 120, permanent deacons 4, religious 145), Scotland.
The bishop-elect was born in Wester Moffat, Scotland in 1961 and was
ordained a priest in 1985. He holds a licentiate in liturgy from the
Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm and a doctorate in canon law from
the Gregorian Pontifical University. He has served in a number of
pastoral roles, including parish vicar of the cathedral “Our Lady
of Good Aid” in Motherwell, chaplain of Our Lady's High School,
parish vicar of St. Serf's, Airdrie, and chaplain of St. Margaret's
High School in Airdrie, Glasgow, and parish vicar at St. Aidan's in
Wishaw. He collaborated in the English section at the Secretariat of
State before admission to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in
Rome. He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1997,
serving in the Apostolic Nunciatures in Egypt, Burundi, Portugal, New
York (United Nations) and South Africa. He is currently nunciature
counsellor in the Section for General Affairs of the Secretariat of
State.
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