Diocese of Motherwell

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Introduction to the Parishes within the Diocese of Motherwell

The Diocese of Motherwell was erected as a Suffragan See of the Archdiocese of Glasgow by the Apostolic Constitution Maxime interest of the 25th May 1947.

The Diocese of Motherwell comprises in the city of Glasgow, the parishes of St Benedict and St Clare, Easterhouse; Baillieston and Craigend & Garthamlock; North Lanarkshire (except the parishes of Kilsyth, Condorrat, Croy and Cumbernauld and the area of Auchinloch), and South Lanarkshire

There are a total of 75 parishes divided up in to 9 Deaneries. ministering to an estimated Catholic Population of 165,100 (taken from the Western Calendar 2006).