BY Daniel Harkins | March 14 | 
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Holy Cross parish priest steps down due to ill health
Mgr Hugh Bradley (below), secretary general of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, takes over from Fr Neil Donnachie (above) today
Fr Neil Donnachie has resigned as parish priest of Holy Cross parish in Crosshill after a period of illness.
In a letter to parishioners, Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow confirmed that Mgr Hugh Bradley would take over the parish from today, Monday March 14. The Franciscan Friars at Blessed John Duns Scotus have been covering the parish since Fr Donnachie suffered a stroke.
“Realising that his recovery would take some time, Fr Neil wrote to me last month tendering his resignation as parish priest of Holy Cross,” the archbishop writes. “With regret I accepted Fr Neil’s resignation in order that I could make the necessary provision for the pastoral care of the Holy Cross Parish and so that Fr Neil could devote his energies to his recovery.”
The archbishop thanked Fr Donnachie and also thanked Fr Eddie Highton and the Franciscans for their care of the parish in Fr Donnachie’s absence, saying they ‘have done so with great generosity and have been able to maintain a virtually unchanged programme in Holy Cross.’
Mgr Bradley is the secretary general of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland and previously parish priest of St Matthew’s, Bishopbriggs.
Mgr Bradley will be assisted in Holy Cross by Fr Prasad Prathipati, an Indian priest from the Palestrina Diocese in Italy.
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