page_title: Diocese of Edinburgh
section_title: Churches
hierarchical_section_title: Diocese of Edinburgh / Churches
caption_attribution_description: English: St. Mary's Church. Queensferry. The old 15th church is part of the Scottish Episcopal Church. The church is one of the oldest church, intact, in Scotland and was once part of a monastery. It still stands proud in the western end of the High Street.
context_page_description: The Diocese of Edinburgh is one of the seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church. It covers the City of Edinburgh, the Lothians, the Borders and Falkirk. The diocesan centre is St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. The Bishop of Edinburgh is the Right Revd Dr John Armes.
context_section_description: The Episcopal cathedral is St Mary's Cathedral, at the West End of the city. Notable Episcopal churches in the Edinburgh diocese include Rosslyn Chapel, popularised by Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code; the Priory Church, South Queensferry, the only medieval Carmelite church still in use in the British Isles; and Old St Paul's, the oldest Episcopal congregation in Scotland.
  The diocese currently has 50 stipendiary clergy and 53 churches.
  Last fully updated 19 September 2018.
caption: St. Mary's Priory Church, South Queensferry (15th century)
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