Diocese of Argyll and The Isles
Ergadien(sis) et Insularum
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Argyll and The Isles, United Kingdom
The Diocese of Argyll and the Isles is a Latin rite diocese covering most of Argyll and Bute, the southern Highlands, the Outer Hebrides and Arran in Scotland. It was erected on 5 March 1878 at the restoration of the Scottish hierarchy and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh. Its seat is St Columba's Cathedral in Oban, opened in 1934.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1878
- Latin
- Ergadien(sis) et Insularum
- Patron
- Columba
- Annuario code
- 001000726
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 10,660
- Population
- 74,546
- Catholic share
- 14.3%
- Priests
- 29
- Catholics per priest
- 368
- Extent
- 31,080 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.3
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Brian McGee
- Born
- 8 October 1965
- Birthplace
- Greenock
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St Columba's Cathedral, Oban stands in Argyll and The Isles, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Saint Andrews and EdinburghSaint Andrews and Edinburgh
- Diocese of AberdeenAberdeen
- Diocese of DunkeldDunkeld
- Diocese of GallowayGalloway
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Scotland, the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles (Latin: Diocesis Ergadiensis et Insularum) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church, belonging to the Province of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].