Donald Mackintosh (1876 –1943) was a Scottish clergyman who served as the

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from 1922 to 1943.

Life

Donald Mackintosh was born on 10 October 1876 at Glasnacardoch, Inverness. Until he went to school his only language was Gaelic. He studied for the priesthood at

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near Aberdeen and the Paris lower seminary, followed by Scots College in Rome and the

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. He was ordained

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on 1 November 1900. Soon afterwards he appointed Vice-Rector of the Scots College. In 1907, he was made a privy Chamberlain. Mackintosh became rector of the College in 1913,"Archbishop Donald Mackintosh", ''The Glasgow Story''
/ref> and was made a Domestic Prelate the following year. Mackintosh was appointed Archbishop of the Metropolitan see of Glasgow on 24 February 1922 and consecrated to the

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on 21 May 1922. His principal

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was Cardinal

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, Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation, and the principal co-consecrators were Henry Gray Graham, Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh and Donald Martin, Bishop of Argyll and The Isles. According to

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, by 1940, "Archbishop Mackintosh was a chronic invalid who was unable to get around his archdiocese or properly supervise its activities."Gallagher, Thomas. ''Glasgow, the Uneasy Peace: Religious Tension in Modern Scotland, 1819-1914'', Manchester University Press, 1987, p. 185
/ref> He died in office on 8 December 1943, aged 67. He had been a priest for 43 years and a bishop for 21 years. He was the principal consecrator of Andrew Thomas McDonald, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mackintosh, Donald 1876 births 1943 deaths Roman Catholic archbishops of Glasgow People from Inverness 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Scotland Scottish Roman Catholic bishops