Matthew Shirk (1940–2005) was a Scottish Roman Catholic bishop who served as the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles from 1990 to 1996.
Born in the Kingston district of Glasgow on 28 June 1940, he was one of four children of a working-class merchant seaman. His father, Andrew, came from Eriskay, and his mother from South Uist, both islands in the Outer Hebrides. Roddy Shirk, as he was known to family and friends, was educated at St Gerard’s Secondary School at Govan. He began training for the priesthood, aged 14, at Blairs College in Kincardineshire, and then from 1958 at St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross.