The Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, died suddenly last week. He had been diagnosed with Covid-19, but there was as yet no word on the precise cause of his death, at age 70, on the Feast of St Mungo -- Patron and Founder of Glasgow -- after leading the Church in that city for more than eight years. An "immeasurable" loss, was how the Bishops of Scotland described Archbishop Tartaglia's passing, while Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken recalled His Grace's "keen social conscience," his "compassion and the leadership he offered" in trying times, which are bound to make his passing keenly felt not only to the Catholic faithful of Glasgow, but "to the city as a whole." Archbishop Tartaglia was a native Glaswegian, born in the city on 11 January 1951. He trained for the priesthood at St Vincent's, Langbank and St Mary's, Blairs (Aberdeen), before going to Rome and the Pontifical Gregorian University, during which time he lived at the Pontifical Scots College. After his ordination in 1975, then-Father Tartaglia returned to the Scots College -- he was dean of studies for a while as a young priest, while he completed work on his Doctorate in Sacred Theology. Nearly two decades later, in 2004, he would be invited to take the post of Scots College rector -- but his tenure in office would be brief, as Pope Benedict XVI called him to serve as Bishop of Paisley in 2005. Fr Ryan Black of the Diocese of Paisley, currently assigned to St Mirin's Cathedral, remembered Archbishop Tartaglia from his youth, and his time at the Scots College in Rome, as "a kind man with a father’s heart." "With so many others from the Diocese of Paisley," Fr Black told the Catholic Herald, "I remember Bishop Tartaglia fondly and I pray for the happy repose of his soul." Fr Black recalled the day then-Bishop Tartaglia called on him at his home parish: