William Andrew Hart was a Scottish

Scotland

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 Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Dunkeld

Bishop of Dunkeld

The Bishop of Dunkeld is the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Dunkeld, one of the largest and more important of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th century cleric named Cormac...

 from 1955 to 1981.

Born in Dumbarton, Scotland on 9 September 1904, he was ordained

Holy Orders

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 to the priesthood

Priesthood (Catholic Church)

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 on 25 May 1929. He was appointed the Bishop

Bishop (Catholic Church)

In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

 of the Diocese of Dunkeld

Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunkeld

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunkeld is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in Scotland, forming an episcopal hierarchy distinct from that of England and Wales....

 by the Holy See

Holy See

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 on 27 May 1955, and consecrated

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 to the Episcopate

Episcopal polity

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 on 21 September 1955. The principal consecrator

Consecrator

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 was Archbishop Donald Alphonsus Campbell

Donald Alphonsus Campbell

Donald Alphonsus Campbell was a Scottish prelate who served as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow from 1945 to 1963.Born in Bohunhin, Glen Roy, Inverness-shire on 8 December 1894, he was ordained to the priesthood on 3 April 1920...

 of Glasgow, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop James Black

James Black (bishop)

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 of Paisley and Bishop Joseph Michael McGee

Joseph Michael McGee

Joseph Michael McGee was a Scottish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Galloway from 1952 to 1981.Born in the parish of Monzievaird and Strowan, Perthshire, Scotland on 13 December 1904, he was ordained to the priesthood on 25 May 1929...

 of Galloway.

He retired on 26 January 1981 and assumed the title Bishop Emeritus

Emeritus

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of Dunkeld. He died on 18 October 1992, aged 88.