1. Thomas Joseph Winning was a Scottish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
15 Facts About Thomas Winning
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Thomas Winning served as Archbishop of Glasgow from 1974 and President of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland from 1985 until his death.
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Tom Winning was the oldest child of two born to a devout Roman Catholic family in Wishaw, Lanarkshire.
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Thomas Winning was appointed to St Peter's Seminary, Bearsden, at age 17.
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Thomas Winning 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.
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Thomas Winning was ordained in the Church of St John Lateran, in Rome, on 18 December 1948 for the Diocese of Motherwell.
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Thomas Winning was often outspoken, and unafraid to publicly expound the Roman Church's understanding of moral matters such as abortion and homosexuality and ecclesiastical matters such as the celibacy of priests.
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Thomas Winning began a scheme to give financial support to young mothers, as an alternative to abortion.
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Thomas Winning rejected a plan to renovate and extend St Andrew's Cathedral, as the money would be better spent on the poor of the Archdiocese.
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Thomas Winning played a major role in bringing Pope John Paul II to Britain in 1982, a visit that was almost called off because of the Falklands Conflict that coincided with the visit.
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Thomas Winning is thought to have convinced the Pope to continue with the visit which was the first official visit to the United Kingdom by a Pope.
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Thomas Winning was only the second cardinal since the Reformation to be based in Scotland.
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Thomas Winning was appointed by Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity and to the Pontifical Council for the Family, November 1994 until his death.
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Thomas Winning died in office in June 2001, following a heart attack and is interred in the crypt of St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow.
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The new Cardinal Thomas 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.