Diocese of the Isles
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The Diocese of the Isles, also known as the Diocese of Suðreyar, or the Diocese of Sodor, was one of the
History
The diocese in its full form included the
From the 11th century until the creation of the
In 1472, however, the Norwegian territories of Orkney and Shetland became Scottish, as part of the marriage settlement of King
The Bishopric's links with Rome ceased to exist after the Scottish Reformation, but continued, apart from temporary abolition between 1638 and 1661, under the Episcopal faction within the Church of Scotland until the Revolution of 1688. Episcopacy and Anglicanism in the established and Presbyterian-controlled Church of Scotland was permanently abolished in 1689 but it continued in the Non-juring Scottish Episcopal Church until 1702 with the death of Bishop Archibald Graham. The diocese then came under the care of the Bishop of Ross or Caithness or Moray variously. A new united Scottish Episcopal Diocese of Argyll and The Isles was established in 1847 with Bishop Alexander Ewing as the first Bishop living at Lochgilphead. In the Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy in 1878, a Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles was similarly reestablished and continues to exist.
Medieval parishes
Source: Argyll Bute Inverness Ross. Man not included.
- Barra
- Barvas (Lewis)
- Benbecula
- Bracadale (Skye)
- Canna
- Coll
- Colonsay
- Duirinish (Skye)
- Eye or Stornoway (Lewis)
- Gigha & Cara
- Harris
- Howmore (South Uist)
- Inchkenneth (Mull)
- Iona
- Jura or Killearndale
- Kilarrow (Islay)
- Kilbride (Arran)
- Kilchoman (Islay)
- Kilcolmkill (Mull)
- Kildalton (Islay)
- Kildonan (Eigg)
- Kilfinichen (Mull)
- Kilmaluoc (Raasay)
- Kilmeny (Islay)
- Kilmore (Mull)
- Kilmory (Arran)
- Kilmuir or Kilmorie (North Uist)
- Kilmuir (Skye)
- Kilninian (Mull)
- Kilpeter (South Uist)
- Kilvickeon (Mull)
- Kingarth (Bute)
- Kirkapoll (Tiree)
- Lochs (Lewis)
- Minginish (Skye)
- Ness (Lewis)
- Rodel (Harris)
- Rothesay (Bute)
- Sand (North Uist)
- Sleat (Skye)
- Snizort (Skye)
- Soroby (Tiree)
- Strath (Skye)
- Torosay or Killean (Mull)
- Trumpan (Skye)
- Uig (Lewis)
- Uig (Skye)
Notes
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Argyll and the Isles". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ancient Diocese of Sodor and Man". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- Cowan, Ian Borthwick; Easson, David Edward (1976). Medieval Religious Houses, Scotland: with an appendix on the houses in the Isle of Man. London: Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-12069-3.
- Dowden, John (1912), Thomson, J. Maitland (ed.), The bishops of Scotland: being notes on the lives of all the bishops, under each of the sees, prior to the reformation, James Maclehose and sons
- Thomas, Sarah E. (2010). "The Diocese of Sodor between Niðaróss and Avignon — Rome, 1266–1472". Scottish Society for Northern Studies. 41: 22–40.
- Watt, D. E. R. (2003). Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae medii aevi ad annum 1638. Edinburgh: Scottish Record Society. ISBN 978-0-902054-19-6.
- Woolf, Alex (2003), "The Diocese of Sudreyar", in Imsen, Steiner (ed.), Ecclesia Nidrosiensis 1153–1537: Søkelys på Nidaroskirkens og Nidarosprovinsens historie (in English and Norwegian), Trondheim: Tapir Academic Press, pp. 171–81, ISBN 978-8251918732
See also
- Bishop of the Isles, list of bishops of the Isles
- Diocese of Sodor and Man