Archbishop of Glasgow

The Bishop of Glasgow, after 1492 Archbishop of Glasgow, was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Glasgow and then, as Archbishop of Glasgow, the Archdiocese of Glasgow. Today he is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Glasgow.

The bishopric as a functional Glasgow institution originates in the period of the reign of David, Prince of the Cumbrians, but the earliest attested bishops come from the 11th century, appointees of the Archbishop of York. The seat of the bishops and archbishops was at Glasgow Cathedral until 1688. After the Scottish church broke its links with Rome in 1560, the Archbishopric continued under the independent Scottish church until 1689 when Episcopacy in the Church of Scotland was finally abolished.

In the following centuries Catholicism slowly began re-establishing itself, culminating in 1829 with legal The Catholic Emancipation Act. The archbishopric was revived when the Vicariate Apostolic of the Western District was elevated to archdiocese status on 4 March 1878 on the Restoration of the Scottish hierarchy, and then to metropolitan archdiocese status on 25 May 1947.

The current archbishop is His Grace the Most Reverend Mario Joseph Conti, Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow.

List of bishops of Glasgow

References

* Dowden, John, "The Bishops of Scotland", ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
* Keith, Robert, "An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688", (London, 1824)
* Lawrie, Sir Archibald, "Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D. 1153", (Glasgow, 1905)
* Watt, D. E. R. & Murray, A. L., editors, "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi Ad Annum 1638", revised edition, Scottish Record Society, Edinburgh, 2003, p.187-196. ISBN 0-902054-19-8

See also

*Catholicism in Scotland
*Bishops and Archbishops of Glasgow