Donald Campbell

Donald Alphonsus Campbell (8 December 1894 – 22 July 1963) was a Scottish prelate who served as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow from 1945 to 1963.

Life

Early life Born in Bohuntine, Glen Roy, Inverness-shire on 8 December 1894, he was educated at the local school and entered Blairs College in 1908 to train for the priesthood. He continued to the Scots College, Rome and was ordained to the priesthood on 3 April 1920.

Priesthood Campbell's first assignment was at St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow. From there he went to St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen, and later to the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, where he served as assistant at Rothesay and Roybridge before being appointed parish priest at Castlebay on Barra, and later at Daliburgh on South Uist.

Six years later, he was translated to the Metropolitan see of Glasgow as archbishop on 6 January 1945. he was a member of the Central Preparatory Commission in anticipation of the Second Vatican Council. He attended the first session of the Council in 1962.

Campbell died at the age of 68 on 22 July 1963, at while leading the annual diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes. His body was returned to Scotland, lying in state in St Andrew's Cathedral where an estimated 14,000 people filed past the coffin to pay their respects.