Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow

Archdiocese of Glasgow Archidioecesis Glasguensis Sgìre-àrd-easbaig Ghlaschu
Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew, Glasgow
Coat of arms of the Archdiocese of Glasgow
Location
Country	Scotland
Territory	Most of the city of Glasgow and the council areas of East and West Dunbartonshire, plus small parts of the council areas of Argyll and Bute, Stirling, North and South Lanarkshire
Ecclesiastical province	Glasgow
Metropolitan	Glasgow
Coordinates	55°52′37″N 4°17′06″W / 55.877°N 4.285°W / 55.877; -4.285
Statistics
Area	825 km2 (319 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2021) 822,300 218,170[1] (26.5%)
Parishes	89
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	4 March 1878
Cathedral	St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow
Secular priests	186
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	William Nolan
Vicar General	Mgr Hugh Canon Bradley
Map
Archdiocese of Glasgow   Diocese of Motherwell   Diocese of Paisley
Website
rcag.org.uk

The Archdiocese of Glasgow (Latin: Archidioecesis Glasguensis) is the Latin Catholic metropolitan see of the Province of Glasgow in central Scotland. The episcopal seat of the developing diocese was established by Saint Kentigern in the 6th century AD.^{[citation needed]} It is one of two catholic metropolitan archdioceses of the Catholic Church in Scotland: the only archdioceses in Scotland.^[a] It is the elder of the two bishoprics. Innocent VIII first raised Glasgow a metropolitan archbishopric in 1492.^[b] The Metropolis has the dioceses of Motherwell and Paisley as suffragans within the Ecclesiastical Province.

The modern archdiocese of Glasgow was re-established in 1878 and currently consists of 106 parishes served by 228 priests (2003 figures) covering an area of 1,165 square kilometres (450 sq mi) in the West of Scotland. It includes the city of Glasgow and extends to the town of Cumbernauld in the east, northwards to Bearsden, Bishopbriggs and Milngavie and westwards to Dumbarton, Balloch and Garelochhead. The Catholic population of the diocese is 224,344 (28.8%) out of a total population of 779,490 (2003 figures). Membership dropped to 215,000 (26,5 % out of the total population) by 2016.^[2]

Archbishop emeritus Mario Joseph Conti was appointed in 2002 by Pope John Paul II. Upon Conti's resignation in July 2012, having passed the required age of 75, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Philip Tartaglia, the Bishop of Paisley, to succeed him. Tartaglia was installed as archbishop in September 2012. He died in office on 13 January 2021: Saint Kentigern's feast day.

Not far from St. Enoch Square, and directly adjacent the St. Enoch Centre (the site of an early church of Glasgow's co-founding patron Saint Teneu on the River Clyde) ^{[citation needed]}, the seat of the archbishop is St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow.

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