We are saddened to share the news that Canon Leo Glancy has died, aged 87.

He was ordained in St Mary's Cathedral in 1963 by Cardinal Gray and began ministry as a curate at St Francis Xavier's in Falkirk. He volunteered for missionary work in Nigeria from 1968-1971 and played a pivotal role in rebuilding the Catholic community in Gombe after the devastation of unrest, restoring the parish and helping it flourish once again.

Canon Glancy faithfully served the Archdiocese of St Andrews & Edinburgh for more than six decades.

His parishes included St Mary’s Cathedral; Our Lady’s, Currie; St Mary’s, Haddington; St Catherine’s, Edinburgh; Christ the King and Sacred Heart, Grangemouth. He also served as Spiritual Director at the former Gillis Seminary.

He was latterly living at Nazareth House in Glasgow and died in Gartnavel Hospital on Thursday. We give thanks for Canon Glancy's long and devoted priestly ministry, and we commend him to the mercy of God.

Please keep him, his family, friends and all who mourn him in your prayers. May he rest in peace.

[Image: Holy Mass at Sacred Heart Primary, Grangemouth, in 2013, the year he celebrated his Golden Anniversary, by Gary Hutchison.]