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Motherwell Cathedral's organ was renovated in 2008, and is noted for its size. It was electronically modified with a new console installed. With four manuals it is the largest organ of any Roman Catholic church in the West of Scotland. The cathedral organist is John Pitcathely, who played the organ at both of the Papal visits to Scotland.
The Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Good Aid, popularly known as Motherwell Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral which is the Mother Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Motherwell. It is the seat of the Bishop of Motherwell and its current bishop is Joseph Toal. The cathedral is open to the public most days.
In 2016 Fr. John Farrell, retired priest of the Diocese of Motherwell, [6] the last Head teacher at St Ninian's Falkland, Fife, was sentenced to five years imprisonment. His colleague Paul Kelly, a retired teacher from Portsmouth, was given ten years, both were convicted of the physical and sexual abuse of boys between the years 1979 and 1983.
English: More properly called the Cathedral of our Lady of Good Aid, this is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Motherwell. Originally an ordinary church, the striking red sandstone building was designed by Peter Paul Pugin and opened on 9 December 1900.
[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.
On 15 September 2008, the feast day of its patron saint, the Diocese of Paisley celebrated its Diamond Jubilee.To mark the occasion a mass concelebrated by the Apostolic Nuncio to the Court of St. James's Faustino Sainz Muñoz, the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the Archbishop of Glasgow Mario Conti, the Bishop of Motherwell Joseph Devine, the Bishop of Aberdeen ...
The "Carfin Grotto", as the shrine is locally termed, was the brainchild of Canon Thomas N. Taylor (died 1963), parish priest of St. Francis Xavier's Parish in the small, mining village of Carfin, which lies two miles east of Motherwell, in the West of Scotland.
The Bishop of Motherwell is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Motherwell in the Province of Glasgow, Scotland. [1] The diocese covers an area of 1,178 km 2 (500 sq mi). [1] The see is in the town of Motherwell where the bishop's seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Good Aid. [1]