Philip Tartaglia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Philip Tartaglia

Catholic Archbishop

Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1951

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Profession: Catholic priest

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Philip Tartaglia (born 11 January 1951) is the Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow and the 40th successor of Saint Mungo.
He is the eighth Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow since the re-establishment of the hierarchy in 1878 following the Reformation.
He was installed on 8 September 2012, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
He has been described as a conservative in religious and moral issues.
He was previously the fourth Bishop of Paisley, a post to which he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on 13 September 2005.
With the resignation of Cardinal Keith O'Brien due to inappropriate and predatory sexual conduct in 2013, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Tartaglia as the apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh on 27 February 2013.