Bishops' Conference of Scotland

Bishops' Conference of Scotland
(Catholic National Endowment Trust)
Co-labhairt Easbaigean na h-Alba (in Scottish Gaelic)
AbbreviationBCOS
TypeReligious body
Legal statusUnder charitable trust
(SC016650) [1]
Purpose"To enable the Roman Catholic Bishops in Scotland to work together, undertaking nationwide initiatives through their Commissions and Agencies."[1]
HeadquartersAirdrie, North Lanarkshire
Location
Membership
Incumbent and retired archbishops and bishops of the Catholic Church in Scotland
President
Bishop Hugh Gilbert
Main organ
The Episcopal Conference
AffiliationsCouncil of European Bishops' Conferences, Commission of Bishops' Conferences of the European Union, Catholic Bishops' Bioethics Committee, Action of Churches Together in Scotland, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
Websitehttp://www.bcos.org.uk/

The Bishops' Conference of Scotland (BCOS), under the trust of the Catholic National Endowment Trust, and based in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, is an episcopal conference for archbishops and bishops of the Catholic Church in Scotland. The conference is primarily made up of the presiding bishops of Scotland's eight dioceses as well as bishops who have retired.

As of 2018, the president of the conference is Bishop Hugh Gilbert of the Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen.

  1. ^ BCOS.org.uk retrieved 15 June 2016