Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:Scotland
See a list of abbreviations used in this list. See also our listing of current ecclesial jurisdictions.
| We ask our readers to kindly help us with information (with sources!) to improve this list: * Can the years of erection or revival of the various dioceses be narrowed down? * When and from where was the diocese on the Isle of Man erected, and was it called Man or something else? * When did the dioceses of Abernathy, Brechlin, Dunblane, Moray, Ross, and Shetland, cease to exist? * Is the name Caithness, Orcades and Shetland the correct name of the Ap. Prefecture established in 1869? |
- Regarding the Apostolic Vicariate of the Arctic Pole, which was centered on Wick, Scotland in the 1860'ies:
- 1781
- Sweden (AP) - Sweden
- 1783
- Sweden (AV) - Sweden
- 1855
- Arctic Pole (AP, detached from Sweden AV) - Norway
- 390-402?
- Whithorn / Whitherne / Galloway - Scotland
- 477~
- The Isles / Sodor / Sudr Islands - Scotland
- 550-600
- Glasgow - (Kingdom of Strathclyde) Scotland (abandoned at a later time)
- 700-800
- Fortrenn / Dunkeld - Scotland
- 712~
- Iona (first mentioned in the sources in 712, Irish-type Abbey/Bishop's See) - Ireland
- 800-858
- Abernathy - Scotland
- 850-908
- Saint Andrews - Scotland
- 986~
- Iona (last mentioned in the sources in 986 as an apparent Irish-type Abbey/Bishop's See) - Ireland
- 1055
- Orcades / Orkneys / Birsay - (Norwegian territories) Scotland
- 1063
- Mortlach - Scotland
- 1000-1080
- Abernathy (abandoned) - Scotland
- 1093
- Saint Andrews (abandoned after death of last Celtic bishop) - Scotland
- 1093-1124
- Moray - Scotland
- 1114-1120
- Dunkeld (revived) - Scotland
- 1098~
- Sodor and Man (union of Sodor / The Isles, and Man) - Scotland, Man
- 1109-1144
- Saint Andrews (revived) - Scotland
- 1114-1118
- Glasgow (revived) - Scotland
- 1124-1153
- Caithness - Scotland
- 1124-1153
- Dunblane - Scotland
- 1124-1153
- Ross - Scotland
- 1125~
- Aberdeen (restoration of the diocese of Mortlach) - Scotland
- 1128~
- Galloway (revived) - Scotland
- 1137~
- Kirkwall / Orcades / Orkneys (new name after change of See, previously Birsay) - (Norwegian territories) Scotland
- 1100-1153
- Hjaltland / Shetland - (Norwegian territories) Scotland
- 1150-1153
- Brechlin - Scotland
- 1183-1189
- Argyll (detached from Dunkeld) - Scotland
- 1387
- Sodor / The Isles (reestablished, detached from Sodor and Man) - Scotland
- 1387?
- Argyll and the Isles (united) - Scotland
- 1418-1437
- Argyll (new name, previously Argyll and the Isles) - Scotland
- 1418-1437
- The Isles (detached from Argyll and the Isles) - Scotland
- 1472
- Saint Andrews (Metr.) - Scotland
- 1492
- Glasgow (Metr.) - Scotland
- 1547
- Dunkeld (vacant after Bishop impeded, extinct) - Scotland
- 1558
- Galloway (extinct after death of last bishop) - Scotland
- 1558
- Kirkwall (vacant/extinct) - Scotland
- 1558
- The Isles (vacant/extinct) - Scotland
- 1560
- Argyll (vacant/extinct) - Scotland
- 1571
- Saint Andrews (vacant/extinct after execution of last Archbishop) - Scotland
- 1577
- Aberdeen (vacant/extinct after death of last Bishop) - Scotland
- 1603
- Glasgow (vacand/extinct after death of last Archbishop) - Scotland
- 1603
- (The ancient hierarchy ended with the death of James Beaton, archbishop of Glasgow, at Paris on 24th April 1603, aged 86)
- 1653
- Scotland (AP) - Scotland
- 1694
- Scotland (AV) - Scotland
- 1727
- Scotland - Lowland District (AV, new name, previously Scotland) - Scotland
- 1727
- Scotland - Highland District (AV, detached from Scotland) - Scotland
- 1827
- Scotland - Eastern District (AV, new name, previously Scotland - Lowland District) - Scotland
- 1827
- Scotland - Western District (AV, detached from Scotland - Lowland District) - Scotland
- 1827
- Scotland - Northern District (AV, new name, previously Scotland - Highland District) - Scotland
- 1860
- (Arctic Pole (AP, territories detached from Scotland - Northern District AV, now attached to Arctic Pole AP) - Norway, Scotland)
- 1868
- (Arctic Pole (AP, territory reduced as mainland Scandinavian areas and Greenland are detached and included in new jurisdictions in Denmark and Norway, and North American areas detached and incorporated in St. John's, Newfoundland. See transferred to Wick in Scotland) - Scotland)
- 1869
- Caithness, Orcades and Shetland (AP, and new name, previously Arctic Pole) - Scotland
- 1878
- Aberdeen (reestablished as Scotland - Northern District is suppressed, incorporating the major part of Scotland - Northern District AV, and incorporating Caithness, Orcades and Shetland AP) - Scotland
- 1878
- Argyll and the Isles (reestablished, detached from Scotland - Northern District? AV) - Scotland
- 1878
- Dunkeld (reestablished, detached from Scotland - Northern District and/or Scotland - Eastern District AV ??) - Scotland
- 1878
- Galloway (reestablished, detached from Scotland - Western District AV) - Scotland
- 1878
- Glasgow (AD, reestablished as Scotland - Western District is suppressed, incorporating the major part of Scotland - Western District AV) - Scotland
- 1878
- Saint Andrews and Edinburgh (reestablished as Scotland - Eastern District is suppressed, incorporating the major part of Scotland - Eastern District AV) - Scotland
- 1947
- Glasgow (Metr., previously AD) - Scotland
- 1947
- Motherwell (detached from Glasgow, and from Galloway) - Scotland
- 1947
- Paisley (detached from Glasgow) - Scotland