{"id":61897,"date":"2023-06-15T18:41:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T23:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=61897"},"modified":"2023-08-09T09:47:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T14:47:02","slug":"remembering-bishop-maurice-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/15\/remembering-bishop-maurice-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Bishop Maurice Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Emeritus Maurice Taylor, the retired bishop of Galloway, Scotland, and the oldest Catholic bishop in Great Britain, has died at the age of 97.<\/p>\n<p>He grew up in Lanarkshire and served in the Army Medical Corps at the end of the Second World War, was ordained in 1950, thus having served as a priest for well over 70 years. He was Rector of the Scots College in Valladolid, Spain, from 1965 to 1974. Later, he was ordained Bishop of Galloway in 1981, retiring in 2004, after which he authored four books, including the one mentioned below.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Taylor served on the Episcopal Board of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) for over a decade, and was its chairman from 1997-2002. During this time and in his role as chair of ICEL he was subjected to the appalling, even rude, behavior of the late Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez during the time that the latter was the Pro-Prefect and then the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship. Cardinal Medina was also responsible for the promulgation of the instruction <em>Liturgiam Authenticam<\/em> (2001). Under his leadership, the Congregation effectively dismantled and reconstituted ICEL, an act which continues to have unfortunate repercussions in the life of the English-speaking Church even today. The inside story of this whole unsavory episode is to be found in Bishop Taylor&#8217;s book <em>It&#8217;s the Eucharist, Thank God<\/em>, still in print. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.decanimusic.co.uk\/product\/its-the-eucharist-thank-god\/\">https:\/\/www.decanimusic.co.uk\/product\/its-the-eucharist-thank-god\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Taylor no doubt rejoiced that not only was he ordained four years before the Cardinal but he also outlived him by two years. 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