page_title: Catholic Church in Scotland
section_title: Organisation
hierarchical_section_title: Catholic Church in Scotland / Organisation
caption_attribution_description: English: Colours indicating the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Scotland on a map of Council areas of Scotland in 2011. Grey = Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh Pink = Diocese of Aberdeen Yellow = Diocese of Argyll and the Isles Violet = Diocese of Dunkeld Orange = Diocese of Galloway Green = Archdiocese of Glasgow Light blue = Diocese of Motherwell Dark Blue = Diocese of Paisley
context_page_description: The Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, overseen by the Scottish Bishops' Conference, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church headed by the Pope. After being firmly established in Scotland for nearly a millennium, the Catholic Church was outlawed following the Scottish Reformation in 1560. Catholic Emancipation in 1793 helped Catholics regain civil rights. In 1878, the Catholic hierarchy was formally restored. Throughout these changes, several pockets in Scotland retained a significant pre-Reformation Catholic population, including parts of Banffshire, the Hebrides, and more northern parts of the Highlands, in Galloway at Terregles House, Munches House, Kirkconnell House, New Abbey and Parton House and at Traquair in Peebleshire.
  In 1716, Scalan seminary was established in the Highlands and rebuilt in the 1760s by Bishop John Geddes, a well-known figure in the Edinburgh of the Enlightenment period. When Robert Burns wrote to a correspondent that "the first [that is, finest] cleric character I ever saw was a Roman Catholick", he was referring to Geddes. The Gàidhealtachd has been both Catholic and Protestant in modern times.
context_section_description: There are three entities that encompass Scotland, England, and Wales.
  The Bishopric of the Forces serves all members of her majesty's military and naval forces throughout the world, including those stationed on bases in Scotland.
  The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is a jurisdiction equivalent to a diocese for former Anglicans received into the full communion of the Catholic Church and their families.  It has faculty to celebrate a distinct variant of the Roman Rite based on the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.
  The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Family of London serves members of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, a sui juris ritual church of Byzantine Rite that is part of the larger Catholic Church.
  There are two Catholic archdioceses and six dioceses in Scotland; total membership is 841,000: 
  The Bishopric of the Forces and the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham are directly subject to the Holy See.  The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Family of London is subject to its own metropolitan, major archbishop, and major archiepiscopal synod.
caption: Map of Catholic dioceses in Scotland
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