Orkney Diocese
The diocese of Orkney ( Latin : Dioecesis Orchadensis ) was a Roman Catholic diocese located in what is now the United Kingdom , with its seat in Kirkwall . It included the Orkney and the Shetland Islands .
history
The Orkney Diocese was established in 1055. First Bishop was Henrik . In 1152 the diocese of Orkney was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Nidaros as a suffragan . On August 17, 1472, the Orkney diocese was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Saint Andrews as a suffragan.
The penultimate Roman Catholic bishop, Robert Reid OCist , died on September 14, 1558. Pope Paul IV appointed Adam Bothwell on August 2, 1559 as his successor. Mary Queen of Scots , Queen of Scots, confirmed Bothwell as bishop in 1562, suggesting that Bothwell was then still considered Catholic. But Bothwell had already begun to reform his diocese after the Reformation propagated by John Knox had largely established itself on the Scottish mainland in the course of 1560 . A formal declaration of his conversion to the Reformed Church of Scotland is not documented. 1566 he agreed in any case to the decision, the Second Helvetic Confession of Heinrich Bullinger to become the creed of the Church of Scotland.
Footnotes
- ^ Gordon Donaldson: Bishop Adam Bothwell and the Reformation in Orkney. In: Records of the Scottish Church History Society. Vol. 13, 1959, ISSN 0264-5572 , pp. 85-100, here p. 87 .
- ^ Gordon Donaldson: Bishop Adam Bothwell and the Reformation in Orkney. In: Records of the Scottish Church History Society. Vol. 13, 1959, pp. 85-100, here p. 91 .
See also
- List of the Bishops of Orkney
- List of former Catholic dioceses
- Roman Catholic Church in the United Kingdom