Cardinal ordains Bishop Toal

BISHOP Joseph Toal was ordained as the new Bishop of Argyll and the Isles on December 8 at St Columba's Cathedral.. Oban. Born in Roy Bridge, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Bishop Toal was ordained as a priest of the diocese at St Columba's on July 10 1980.
After ordination he served in Daliburgh and Ardkenneth on South Uist, Campbeltown and Benbecula before being appointed spiritual director at the Royal Scots College in Salamanca, Spain, in 1999. He was vice-rector and then rector of the College.
On October 16 2008 it was announced that Mgr Toal had been appointed Bishop of Argyll and the Isles by Pope Benedict XVI to succeed the Bishop Ian Murray. In his homily Car dinal O'Brien said: "Like so many of you gathered here this evening in your magnificent cathedral I have known Fr Joe of old. I was his rector when he was a member of staff at Blair's College in Aberdeen; I was apostolic administrator of this wonderful diocese for some three years; and in a special way I got to know Joe's deceased father and his wonderful mother in Roy Bridge.