Archdiocese of Glasgow Archidioecesis Glasguensis Sgìre-àrd-easbaig Ghlaschu | |
|---|---|
 Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew, Glasgow | |
 Coat of arms of the Archdiocese of Glasgow | |
| Location | |
| Country |  Scotland |
| Territory | Most of the city of Glasgow and the council areas of East and West Dunbartonshire, plus small parts of the council areas of Argyll and Bute, Stirling, North and South Lanarkshire |
| Ecclesiastical province | Glasgow |
| Metropolitan | Glasgow |
| Coordinates | 55°52′37″N 4°17′06″W / 55.877°N 4.285°W |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 825 km2 (319 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2021) 822,300 218,170[1] (26.5%) |
| Parishes | 89 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 4 March 1878 |
| Cathedral | St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow |
| Secular priests | 186 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | William Nolan |
| Vicar General | Mgr Hugh Canon Bradley |
| Map | |
 Archdiocese of Glasgow
Diocese of Motherwell
Diocese of Paisley | |
| Website | |
| rcag.org.uk | |
The Archdiocese of Glasgow (Latin: Archidioecesis Glasguensis) is the Latin Catholic metropolitan see of the Province of Glasgow in central Scotland. The episcopal seat of the developing diocese was established by Saint Kentigern in the 6th century AD.[citation needed] It is one of two catholic metropolitan archdioceses of the Catholic Church in Scotland: the only archdioceses in Scotland.[a] It is the elder of the two bishoprics. Innocent VIII first raised Glasgow a metropolitan archbishopric in 1492.[b] The Metropolis has the dioceses of Motherwell and Paisley as suffragans within the Ecclesiastical Province.
The modern archdiocese of Glasgow was re-established in 1878 and currently consists of 106 parishes served by 228 priests (2003 figures) covering an area of 1,165 square kilometres (450 sq mi) in the West of Scotland. It includes the city of Glasgow and extends to the town of Cumbernauld in the east, northwards to Bearsden, Bishopbriggs and Milngavie and westwards to Dumbarton, Balloch and Garelochhead. The Catholic population of the diocese is 224,344 (28.8%) out of a total population of 779,490 (2003 figures). Membership dropped to 215,000 (26,5 % out of the total population) by 2016.[2]
Archbishop emeritus Mario Joseph Conti was appointed in 2002 by Pope John Paul II. Upon Conti's resignation in July 2012, having passed the required age of 75, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Philip Tartaglia, the Bishop of Paisley, to succeed him. Tartaglia was installed as archbishop in September 2012. He died in office on 13 January 2021: Saint Kentigern's feast day.
Not far from St. Enoch Square, and directly adjacent the St. Enoch Centre (the site of an early church of Glasgow's co-founding patron Saint Teneu on the River Clyde) [citation needed], the seat of the archbishop is St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow.
- ^ "Glasgow (Archdiocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]".
- ^ Archdiocese Glasgow Statistics , 11 October 2019]
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