Vatican
City, 28 December 2015 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father appointed
Msgr. Brian McGee as Bishop of Argyll and the Isles (area 31,080,
population 77,400, Catholics 10,179, priests 25, permanent deacons 1,
religious 32), Scotland. Bishop-elect McGee was born in Greenock, in
the Diocese of Paisley, in 1965 and was ordained a priest of the
clergy of Paisely in 1989. He has served as a pastor as well as the
Scots College’s spiritual director. He was diocesan director of the
RCIA program as well as Episcopal Vicar for marriage and the family.
Since 2014 he has served as Paisley’s vicar general.
On
Thursday, 24 December, the Holy Father appointed Msgr. Wojciech
Tomasz Osial as auxiliary bishop of Lowicz (area 5,806, population
609,479, Catholics 607,825, priests 166, religious 390), Poland.
Bishop-elect Osial was born in Lowicz in 1970 and was ordained a
priest in 1995. He holds a doctorate in catechetics from Rome’s
Pontifical Salesian University and has been serving as Lowicz’s
diocesan director for catechism and curial notary. He is also a
professor in the seminaries of Lowicz and Oltarzew as well as the
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. He has been a canon
of the cathedral chapter since 2014.
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