Thomas Joseph Winning
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His Eminence Thomas Winning FRSE, FEIS |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop of Glasgow | |
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| Archdiocese | Glasgow |
| Appointed | 23 April 1974 |
| Term ended | 17 June 2001 |
| Predecessor | James Donald Scanlan |
| Successor | Mario Joseph Conti |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 18 December 1948 (Priest) |
| Consecration | 30 November 1971 (Bishop) by James Donald Scanlan |
| Created Cardinal | 26 November 1994 |
| Rank | Cardinal of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte |
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| Birth name | Thomas Joseph Winning |
| Born | 3 June 1925 Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| Died | 17 June 2001 (aged 76) Glasgow, Scotland |
| Buried | Crypt of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Previous post | Auxiliary Bishop of Glasgow and Titular Bishop of Lugmad (1971–1974) |
| Alma mater | Our Lady's High School, Motherwell |
| Motto | Caritas Christi urget nos |
| Coat of arms |  |
Thomas Joseph Winning FRSE FEIS (3 June 1925 – 17 June 2001) was a Scottish 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 cardinalate in 1994.
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 industry. 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, where his devotion to the Roman Catholic Church began. He served as an altar boy and chorister. Then, while at Our Lady's High School, Motherwell, he expressed the desire to become a priest. He successfully applied to study for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow and on acceptance was appointed to St Peter's Seminary, Bearsden, at age 17.
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 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 Scots College in Rome. The College had been empty of students since 1939. He was ordained in the Church of St John Lateran, in Rome, on 18 December 1948. His father sold the sweet making machinery as a way to pay the fare for the family to go to Rome for the ceremony.
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