St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Roman Catholic)

St. Mary's Cathedral (also St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral period) is the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located in the East End of Edinburgh on Picardy Place and is the seat of the archbishop and of the Archdiocese of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh. Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien to 2013 held the office of bishop.

History

Edinburgh was in the early Middle Ages, especially since the 8th century, a bishopric. With the Reformation in Scotland, the bishop's throne from 1571 orphaned for several centuries. Until 1778 the building of Catholic churches was forbidden.

As in the train of the Industrial Revolution, the number of Catholics in Scotland but slowly increased, the Catholic Church in Scotland decided under Bishop Hay in 1801 to build a large new church in Edinburgh's New Town. The former cathedral in St Andrews has long been a ruin, the bishop's seat was eventually moved to the capital, but the newly erected Archdiocese received the name of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh.

As an architect James Gillespie Graham was hired, who also designed the Roman Catholic Church of St. Andrews, Glasgow. In August 1814, the building according to the plans Grahams in Scottish Gothic style, the Scottish variant of the Gothic Revival, completed. In the decades after that followed a few minor enhancements: 1841, Bishop Gillis expand the altar area, 1866 saw the construction of a side chapel by Bishop Strain. In 1878, the church became a bishopric and thus became a cathedral. In 1896 it was further enlargement of the chancel and 1932, raising the ceiling to its present height.

Equipment

The organ was built by the organ builder Matthew Copley (Kingston -upon -Thames ), 2007. The instrument has 66 registers on three manuals and pedal, and can allude of two gaming tables from. The contractures are electric.