Peter Antony Moran (born 13 April 1935) is the former

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of the Diocese of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Early life

Moran was born in

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. After early schooling in Lanarkshire and East Dunbartonshire, he spent nine years in further primary and then secondary education at St Aloysius' College, Glasgow, a

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day school.

Priesthood

His formal education for the Catholic priesthood began with seven years at the Pontifical Scots College in

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(1952-1959), where he was ordained priest in 1959 in the chapel of the

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by Bishop Fernández-Conde of Córdoba. He holds the degrees of Ph.L. and S.T.L. from the

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in Rome. He is also a graduate of the

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, where he received an

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degree, as well as the

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where he earned an M.A. (Hons.) degree in classics. At the request of his bishop he attended the

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to prepare for a teaching post in

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, then the national minor seminary for Scotland. After graduating in 1963 he trained at Jordanhill College of Education and joined the Blairs College staff in 1964, where he remained until 1986. He also served in a variety of pastoral appointments before becoming bishop: priest in charge of St. Mary’s Parish, Blairs; parish priest of Inverurie and also as

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to various schools. For several years, he served as the Roman Catholic "corresponding member" of Gordon Presbytery of the

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. He served from 1986 to 2002 on the Education Committees of now defunct Grampian Region and later of

Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire ( sco, Aiberdeenshire; gd, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 Subdivisions of Scotland#council areas of Scotland, council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the County of Aberdeen which has substantially differe ...

. He is a Life Member of the Educational Institute of Scotland (E.I.S.) and chaplain to the French-speaking Catholic community of (mainly oil-related) expatriates in Aberdeen.

Bishop of Aberdeen

When Bishop

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became Archbishop of Glasgow on 22 February 2002, Peter Moran was elected to the caretaker post of Diocesan Administrator of Aberdeen before being appointed

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on 13 October 2003. He was consecrated as Bishop of Aberdeen on 1 December 2003 by Archbishop Mario Joseph Conti in the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption,

Aberdeen Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...

. His personal motto is, in

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, ''Gaudium et spes'' - "Joy and Hope" - which is also the title of Vatican II's ''Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World''.

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Catholic HierarchyDiocese of Aberdeen
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