Maurice Taylor (Bishop)

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Bishop Emeritus Maurice Taylor (born 5 May 1926) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Galloway, Scotland 1981-2004.

Born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, he attended Saint Cuthbert’s primary school, Burnbank, before going to Saint Aloysius’ College, Glasgow, and later Our Lady’s High School, Motherwell.

He studied philosophy at Blairs College, Aberdeen, from 1942 to 1944 and then served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, at home, in India and in Egypt. He was at the Pontifical Scots College, Rome, from 1947 to 1951, studying theology at the Gregorian University and being ordained a priest in Rome on 2nd July, 1950.

After a year as assistant priest in Saint Bartholomew’s, Coatbridge, he returned to Rome in 1952 where he took his doctorate in theology in 1954. For 10 years from August 1955 he taught philosophy and theology at Saint Peter’s College, Cardross.

From 1965 until 1974 he was rector of the Royal Scots College, Valladolid, Spain. He was ordained Bishop of Galloway by the late Cardinal Gray on 9 June 1981. For more than ten years he represented Scotland on the Episcopal Board of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL), and was its chairman from 1997-2002. He retired as Bishop in 2004 and was succeeded by Bishop John Cunningham.

He has an interest in Latin America, particularly Guatemala and El Salvador. He is vice-president of Progressio.