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Highland Deanery

St Mary’s, Inverness

There was no Catholic Church in Inverness after the reformation.  In 1810 a small congregation was recorded of mainly gaelic speakers.  It was not until after catholic emancipation in 1829 that St Mary's was built in 1837, as one of the most beautiful churches in the city.  It has been extended and rededicated 1979.

St Ninian’s, Inverness

St Ninian's is the second church to be built in Inverness since the Reformation.  Originally the site of a private house, the present building, which has gone through several improvements, was built in 1977.

St Columba's, Culloden

Mass is celebrated in Culloden Primary School every Sunday Morning for around 110 people.  A huge number of people have settled in the area, and a site was purchased nearly 20 years ago from the Forestry Commission with a view to construct a Church building.  The site gives a commanding view over the Firth.

Immaculate Conception, Stratherrick

Stratherrick Church is ten miles away on the B862 at the cross roads after the Whitebridge Hotel just before the turning to Foyers. Situated on the banks of the River Fechlan, this beautiful church is the only Catholic Church on the Southern banks of Loch Ness. Stratherrick is served from St Mary's Inverness.

St Peter and St Benedict, Fort Augustus

Fort Augustus was originally a Hanoverian fort built to resist the 1745 Jacobite up rising.  An abbey and school flourished there, but due to falling vocations both the school and the abbey had to close in the 1990s.  The parish church was relocated to the Lodge at the gate of the abbey in 1999.

Our Lady and St Bean, Marydale, Cannich

Marydale is situated in Strathglas which was for many years particularly during the 17th and 18th centuries one of the areas where Catholicism held out after the reformation. Our Lady and St Bean is served at present from St Mary's, Inverness.

The Parish of St John Ogilvie (Tain, Invergordon, Alness)

The Parish goes back to 1917, when during the First World War the United States Navy built a corrugated iron Chapel at Invergordon for the service-men. The Chapel was served by a priest from Dingwall, or one of the Benedictine monks from Fort Augustus Abbey, on a monthly basis or when the fleet was berthed at Invergordon.

The Parishes of Wick and Thurso

The Parish in Caithness is that of St. Joachim and St. Anne. St. Anne's church is located in Thurso, Caithness. St. Joachim's church is located in Wick, Caithness.  The Parish is the most northern on the UK mainland and is part of the geographically large Diocese of Aberdeen.

Orkney

Situated only a few minutes walk away from St Magnus Cathedral where the relics of the medieval peace maker St Magnus are venerated, the Catholic Church in Orkney is dedicated to Our Lady and St Joseph.

Shetland

The Church of St Margaret's in Lerwick, opened for worship in 1911, is the northernmost Catholic Parish Church in the British Isles.  Lerwick is the administrative capital of the Shetland Islands, one hundred or so in all, and fifteen of which are inhabited.

St Aidan's, Aviemore

This Parish was originally the Parish of Grantown on Spey with its Parish Church of St. Anne's. St Anne's was eventually abandoned as unsafe and later demolished; the congregation moved into the Episcopal Church where they still have Mass twice a week.

Beauly

The Church in Beauly is very much part of the benefaction in the Highlands of the Lovat family to the Catholic Church.

St. Peter and St. Boniface, Fortrose

Canon Duncan Stone, in his retirement, lives next door to the Church and looks after the needs of this parish on the Black Isle

St Lawrence's, Dingwall

There about 250 Catholics in the parish which covers an area reaching from coast to coast.

Dornie

St Duthac's, Dornie is the most western parish in the diocese of Aberdeen. It comprises the whole of Lochalsh and goes as far north as Applecross.

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