List of churches in Shetland
A List of churches in Shetland, Scotland. The Reformation reached Shetland in 1560. This was an apparently peaceful transition and there is little evidence of religious intolerance in Shetland's recorded history. A variety of different religious denominations are represented in the islands. The islands were originally covered by 12 civil parishes: Bressay, Delting, Dunrossness, Fetlar, Lerwick, Nesting, Northmaven, Sandsting, Tingwall, Unst, Walls and Sandness, and Yell. Church of Scotland. The Church of Scotland has a Presbytery of Shetland. Episcopalian. Shetland is part of the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney of the Scottish Episcopal Church . Methodist. The Methodist Church has a relatively high membership in Shetland, which is a District of the Methodist Church (with the whole of the rest of Scotland comprising a separate District). There are 53 Methodist congregations in Scotland, of which 13 (almost a quarter) are located in Shetland. Roman Catholic. Shetland is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen. There is only one Catholic Church in Shetland, located in Lerwick. However, Mass is said in other places, using other places of worship belonging to other Christian groups on an occasional basis.