Patrick Leo McCartie (5 September 1925 – 23 April 2020) was a British Catholic prelate who was the Auxiliary Bishop of the

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and

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Life

McCartie was born in

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in September 1925, the son of Patrick Leo and Hannah McCartie. After seminary studies at Oscott College, Birmingham, McCartie was ordained as a priest on 17 July 1949, aged 23 for service in the

. After a year's curacy at

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, he was on the staff of Cotton College (1950–55), followed by his appointment as the Parish Priest of St Mary's, Wednesbury. He was Director of Religious Education for the Diocese (1963-8) and Administrator (equivalent to Cathedral Dean) of the Metropolitan Cathedral of St Chad in Birmingham (1968–77). On 13 April 1977 McCartie was appointed Auxiliary

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and Titular Bishop of Elmhama by

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. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 20 May from Archbishop

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, with Bishops Joseph Gray and Joseph Francis Cleary serving as co-consecrators. On 20 February 1990 McCartie was appointed the tenth

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

. He was President of the Catholic Commission for Racial Justice (1978–83). On 29 March 2001 his resignation was accepted by the Pope, having reached the mandatory retirement age of 75. He celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of his ordination in July 2009, at Aston with his colleagues and at Nottingham with a celebratory Diocesan Mass. He listed his recreations in ''Who's Who'' as walking and music. He died in April 2020 at the age of 94.Bishop Patrick Leo McCartie
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1925 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in England Alumni of St Mary's College, Oscott Clergy from Birmingham, West Midlands People from Hartlepool Roman Catholic bishops of Northampton {{UK-bishop-stub