Archbishop Tartaglia of Glasgow dies weeks after testing positive for COVID-19 Jan 13, 2021 managing editor Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow, Scotland, serves Communion during Mass in 2013. Tartaglia died on Wednesday while self-isolating at home after testing positive for COVID-19 in late December. (Credit: David Moir/Reuters via CNS.) Weeks after testing positive for COVID-19, Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow died suddenly at his home Wednesday morning at the age of 70. LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Weeks after testing positive for COVID-19, Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow died suddenly at his home Wednesday morning at the age of 70. He was appointed to head Scotland’s largest diocese in 2012, after serving as Bishop of Paisley since 2005.