John Toner

(Archdiocese of Glasgow) Born in St. Mary’s parish, Glasgow, 14th March 1857, the son of William Toner and Elizabeth Nixon; received subdiaconate from Dom Serra, O.S.B., tit. Bp. of Daulia (former administrator of Perth, Australia) in college church, 20th November 1881; ordained a priest, bishop’s private chapel, Palencia, 25th March 1882, and left for Scotland, 9th April 1882; canon of the Glasgow chapter; nominated Bishop of Dunkeld, 8th September 1914, and consecrated by Archbishop Smith, 15th October 1914; died in Dundee, 31st May 1949. (MT)

Date	Age	Description
14 Mar. 1857		Born Glasgow
1871-1875	14	Blairs
15 Sep. 1875	18	Arrived in the College
20 Nov. 1881	24	Received subdiaconate from Dom Serra, O.S.B., tit. Bp. of Daulia (former administrator of Perth, Australia) in college church
25 Mar. 1882	25	Ordained a priest, bishop’s private chapel, Palencia
9 Apr. 1882	25	Left for Scotland
1882-1887	25	St Laurence's, Greenock
1887-1890	30	Professor, St Peter's, College
1890-1897	33	St Michael's, Glasgow
1897-1901	40	St Patrick's, Glasgow
1901-1914	44	Rutherglen
8 Sep. 1914	57	Appointed Bishop of Dunkeld
15 Oct. 1914	57	Consecrated Bishop of Dunkeld by Archbishop James Augustine Smith of St Andrews and Edinburgh
31 May 1949	92	Died Dundee

More information on Bishop Toner can be seen at the Catholic Hierarchy website

Report of the ordination of John Toner in the Scottish Catholic Directory of 1883.

The Rev. John Toner was born in Glasgow on 14th March, 1857; entered Blairs College on 22nd July, 1871; and was sent to Valladolid in August, 1875. He received the Tonsure and Minor Orders on the 19th, and the Subdiaconate on the 20th, November, 1881, from Mgr. Serra, Bishop of Daulia, in the College Chapel; and was ordained Deacon on the 4th, and Priest on the 25th, March, 1882, by Mgr. Lozano y Terreira, Bishop of Palencia, in the Chapel of his Episcopal Palace. On his return to Scotland he was named assistant Priest at St. Lawrence’s, Greenock.