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Repository	Scottish Catholic Archives
Ref No	SCA/PG/2/1/085
Title	Archbishop Andrew Joseph McDonald, OSB, Diocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh
Date	[20th cent]
Level	Item
Description	This photograph shows Archbishop McDonald on the right of a group of clergy who appear who have got out of a car in what is probably Princes Street, Edinburgh as the building behind them is probably Aitken & Niven; Archbishop McDonald was born at Invernevis, Fort William, on 12th February 1871; he was ordained as a priest on 9th August 1896; on 27th August 1919, he was elected third Abbot of Fort Augustus; on 19th July 1929, he was nominated to the See of St Andrews and Edinburgh in succession to Archbishop James A Smith, who had died the previous year, and the new Archbishop was consecrated in St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh on 24th September 1929; he died in Edinburgh on 22nd May 1950, aged 80, and was buried in the vault under the sanctuary in St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh; full details of Archbishop McDonald's life can be found in his obituary on pp 336 to 341 of The Catholic Directory for 1951.
Physical Description	Black and white photograph; 8.5 x 13.5cms
Format	Photograph
AccessConditions	Open for consultation, some sections closed as they hold personal data subject to the Data Protection Act

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