BY Ian Dunn | July 17 2015 | 
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New rector for Pontifical Scots College
Publication Date: 2015-07-17
Fr Daniel Fitzpatrick will succeed Mgr John Hughes in the role having been vice-rector since 2012
Fr Daniel Fitzpatrick has been announced as the next rector of the Pontifical Scots College succeeding Mgr John Hughes.
Acting on the proposal of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy announced the appointment on Tuesday. Fr Fitzpatrick will take up his new post on August 1, 2015. A medical doctor prior to his ordination to the priesthood in 2001, Fr Fitzpatrick has been vice-rector of the Scots College in Rome since February 2012.
Humbled
“I am deeply humbled to have been nominated by the bishops as the next Rector of the Pontifical Scots College in Rome,” he said. “Having been on the staff for over three years as vice-rector, I am aware of the importance of the seminary in the history of the Church in Scotland and of the vital role it continues to play in forming priests for the future.”
A Paisley native, Fr Dan Fitzpatrick was a parishioner of St Mirin’s Cathedral parish, where his mother Margaret remains a parishioner. He attended St Catherine’s Primary School Annexe and St John Ogilvie Primary School—both in Paisley —prior to his secondary education at St Aloysius College, Glasgow. He studied medicine at Glasgow University where he qualified as a doctor. Dr Fitzpatrick was training in general surgery when he felt the call to the priesthood and began his priestly formation at the Scots College Rome in 1995.
In thanking Mgr Hughes, his predecessor, he also thanked the whole college community for its spirit.
Well wishes
Archbishop Tartaglia, President of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, said he was very pleased at the news.
“As he takes up his new post of rector of the Pontifical Scots College Rome, Fr Dan Fitzpatrick enjoys the full support of the Bishops’ Conference and the confidence of the student community,” he said. “As a former rector of the Scots College myself, I wish him every success and blessing in his new and important responsibilities.”
—This story ran in full in the July 17 edition print of the SCO, available in parishes.
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