{{Short description|Archbishop of Glasgow}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = cardinal | honorific-prefix = [[His Eminence]] | name = Thomas Winning | honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|FRSE]], [[Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland|FEIS]]}} | title = [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]], [[Archbishop of Glasgow]] | image = Cardinal Winning.jpg | image_size = 230px | alt = | caption = | archdiocese = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow|Glasgow]] | appointed = 23 April 1974 | term_end = 17 June 2001 | predecessor = [[James Donald Scanlan]] | successor = [[Mario Conti|Mario Joseph Conti]] | other_post = [[Sant'Andrea delle Fratte|Cardinal-priest of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte]] | ordination = 18 December 1948 ([[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|Priest]]) | ordinated_by = | consecration = 30 November 1971 ([[Bishop (Catholic Church)|Bishop]]) | consecrated_by = [[James Donald Scanlan]] | cardinal = 26 November 1994 | rank = [[Cardinal-priest]] | birth_name = Thomas Joseph Winning | birth_date = 3 June 1925 | birth_place = [[Wishaw]], [[Lanarkshire]], [[Scotland]] | death_date = 17 June 2001 (aged 76) | death_place = [[Glasgow]], Scotland | buried = [[Crypt]] of [[St. Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow]] | previous_post = [[Auxiliary Bishop]] of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow|Glasgow]] and [[Titular Bishop]] of ''[[Louth, County Louth|Lugmad]]'' (1971–1974) | alma_mater = Our Lady's High School, [[Motherwell]] | motto = Caritas Christi urget nos | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Thomas Joseph Winning.svg | coat_of_arms_alt = | church = Roman [[Catholic Church]] | created_cardinal_by = [[Pope John Paul II]] | parents = Thomas Winning and Agnes Winning (née Canning) }} '''Thomas Joseph Winning''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|FRSE]] [[Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland|FEIS]]}} (3 June 1925 – 17 June 2001) was a Scottish [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church]]. He served as [[Archbishop of Glasgow]] from 1974 and President of the [[Bishops' Conference of Scotland]] from 1985 until his death. Winning was elevated to the [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinalate]] in 1994.
==Early years== Tom Winning was the oldest child of two born to a devout Roman Catholic family in [[Wishaw]], [[Lanarkshire]]. His father, the son of an Irish immigrant from [[County Donegal]], had worked as a coal-miner, served in the [[First World War]], and was then employed in the [[Steel|steel industry]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-043.htm |title=Bertie Ahern's Address to the Scottish Parliament |date=20 June 2001 |work=Parliamentary News Release |publisher=The Scottish Parliament |access-date=6 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605174208/http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-043.htm |archive-date=5 June 2011 }}</ref> 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 an [[altar boy]]<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/19/religion Seenan, Gerard. "Scotland's turbulent priest", ''The Guardian'', 18 August 2000]</ref> and chorister. Then, while at Our Lady's High School, [[Motherwell, North Lanarkshire|Motherwell]], he expressed the desire to become a priest.
== Priesthood == Winning was appointed to [[St Peter's Seminary, Bearsden]], at age 17.<ref name=mirandaswinning>{{cite web |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title=Thomas Joseph Winning |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios-w.htm#Winning |work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |access-date=6 October 2010}}</ref><ref name=chbwinning>{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bwinning|Thomas Joseph "Cardinal" Winning|6 October 2010}}</ref> 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 to [[Mill Hill#Religious sites|St 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 the [[The Scots College (Rome)|Scots College]] in Rome. The college had been empty of students since 1939. He was ordained in the [[Basilica of St. John Lateran|Church of St John Lateran]], in Rome, on 18 December 1948 for the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Motherwell|Diocese of Motherwell]].
His first appointment was as an assistant ([[curate]]) at St. Aloysius, Chapelhall, [[Lanarkshire]], but after a year he returned to Rome to study [[Canon Law]], gaining in 1953 a [[Doctor of Canon Law (Catholic Church)|Doctor of Canon Law (J.C.D.)]]. Thereafter, he was [[curate]] in St Mary's Church in [[Hamilton, South Lanarkshire|Hamilton]] from 1953-57 and from 1956 priest-secretary to Bishop [[James Donald Scanlan]] of Motherwell. After a period in Our Lady of Good Aid Cathedral in [[Diocese of Motherwell|Motherwell]] from 1957-58, he became Chaplain to the [[Franciscan 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, the [[Second 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 the [[Sacred Roman Rota]] in 1965. In the late-1960s, after his return to Scotland, he was appointed minute secretary for the meetings of the [[Bishops' Conference of Scotland]].<ref name=mirandaswinning/><ref name=chbwinning/>
In 1966, he was called back to Scotland where he was appointed to his first charge as Parish Priest in Saint Luke's, [[Diocese of Motherwell|Motherwell]], where he remained until 1970 when he was appointed as the first Officialis of the newly formed Scottish National Tribunal.<ref name=mirandaswinning/><ref name=chbwinning/>
== Episcopate == On 22 October 1971, Winning was nominated to the [[episcopacy]], as [[Auxiliary Bishop]] to the [[Archbishop of Glasgow]], being consecrated [[Titular bishop|Titular Bishop]] of ''[[Louth, County Louth|Lugmad]]'' on 30 November 1971 and three years later on 23 April 1974, succeeded Archbishop Scanlan when he was translated to the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow|Metropolitan see of Glasgow]]. In 1975, he became the first Roman Catholic [[Archbishop]] to address the [[General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] in the history of that Church. After his appointment to the [[College of Cardinals]] (see below), he was invited once again to address the General Assembly.<ref name=mirandaswinning/><ref name=chbwinning/>
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 businessman [[Brian Souter]], against the repeal of [[Section 28]]) and ecclesiastical matters such as the celibacy of priests. He challenged the [[Act of Settlement 1701|Act 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 extend [[St. Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow|St Andrew's Cathedral]], as the money would be better spent on the poor of the Archdiocese. He played a major role in bringing [[Pope John Paul II]] to the UK in 1982, a visit that was almost called off because of the [[Falklands 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.<ref name=mirandaswinning/><ref name=chbwinning/>
==Cardinalate== On 26 November 1994, he was elevated to the [[College of Cardinals]] by [[Pope John Paul II]] and appointed [[cardinal-priest]] of [[Sant'Andrea delle Fratte]]. Winning was only the second cardinal since the [[Scottish Reformation|Reformation]] to be based in Scotland. He was awarded honorary degrees from the universities of [[University of Aberdeen|Aberdeen]] (LL.D. 1996), [[University of Glasgow|Glasgow]] (DD, 1983) and [[University of Strathclyde|Strathclyde]] (D. Univ, 1992); [[University of Glasgow|Glasgow University]] made him an honorary Professor in the [[Faculty (university)|Faculty]] of [[Divinity]] in 1996. He was appointed by Pope John Paul II to the [[Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity|Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity]] and to the [[Pontifical Council for the Family]], November 1994 until his death.<ref name=mirandaswinning/><ref name=chbwinning/>
==Death== Thomas Winning died in office in June 2001, following a heart attack and is interred in the crypt of [[St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow]].<ref name=mirandaswinning/><ref name=chbwinning/> His successor as Archbishop of Glasgow was [[Mario Joseph Conti|Mario Conti]].<ref name=chbcontim>{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bcontim|Archbishop Mario Joseph Conti|6 October 2010}}</ref>
In June 2011, two separate schools in [[Glasgow]] combined into one new school located in [[Tollcross, Glasgow|Tollcross]] which they voted to call Cardinal Winning after the late [[Archbishop 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 in [[Glasgow]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sconews.co.uk/youth/5842/new-school-has-that-winning-feeling/ |title=New school has that Winning feeling |publisher=SCO News |access-date=2012-07-25}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== [[The Scotsman]] 'Great Scots' [https://web.archive.org/web/20060326144622/http://heritage.scotsman.com/profiles.cfm?cid=1&id=39552005]
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