Mario Conti
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The Most Reverend Mario Conti |
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| Archbishop Emeritus of Glasgow | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Glasgow |
| Installed | 22 February 2002 |
| Term ended | 24 July 2012 |
| Predecessor | Thomas Joseph Winning |
| Successor | Philip Tartaglia |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 26 October 1958 (Priest) |
| Consecration | 3 May 1977 (Bishop) |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Mario Joseph Conti |
| Born |
20 March 1934 Elgin, Moray, Scotland |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic Church |
| Parents | Louis Joseph Conti and Josephine Quintilia Conti (née Panicali) |
| Previous post | Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow, 2002–2012 Bishop of Aberdeen, 1977–2002 |
Mario Joseph Conti (born 20 March 1934) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Metropolitan see of Glasgow, Scotland. Conti was succeeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow in September 2012, with the installation of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, who was previously the Bishop of Paisley.
Mario Joseph Conti was born on 20 March 1934, in Elgin, Moray, son of Louis Joseph Conti and Josephine Quintilia Conti (née Panicali). He studied for the priesthood at The Scots College, Rome and was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Aberdeen in the Church of San Marcello al Corso, by Archbishop Luigi Traglia on 26 October 1958.
After a period as Assistant Priest at St Mary's Cathedral in Aberdeen, Fr Conti served as parish priest of the most northerly Roman Catholic parish in the British mainland, St Joachim's and St Anne's (Wick and Thurso respectively) in Caithness from 1962 to 1977. He was appointed bishop of Aberdeen on 28 February 1977, succeeding Michael Foylan. He was consecrated to that post by Cardinal Gordon Gray on 3 May 1977. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity honoris causa by the University of Aberdeen in 1989, being the first Catholic priest to be so honoured since the Reformation.
As bishop of Aberdeen he rejected claims that the Church sought to protect the interests of nuns and priests above those of children who said they had been abused. It followed the conviction of Sister Marie Docherty on four charges of cruelty towards girls at Nazareth House children's homes in Aberdeen and Midlothian in the 1960s and 1970s. The Liberal Democrats MP for Gordon, Malcolm Bruce, called on the church to apologise to Sister Marie's victims, but Conti resisted any public apology.
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