Archdiocese of Glasgow
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This article is about the historical pre-Reformation Catholic diocese of the Catholic Church in Scotland. For the modern Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow, see Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow. For other uses, see Archdiocese of Glasgow (disambiguation).
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The Archdiocese of Glasgow was one of the thirteen (after 1633 fourteen) dioceses of the Scottish church. It was the second largest diocese in the Kingdom of Scotland, including Clydesdale, Teviotdale, parts of Tweeddale, Liddesdale, Annandale, Nithsdale, Cunninghame, Kyle, and Strathgryfe, as well as Lennox, Carrick and the part of Galloway known as Desnes.
Glasgow became an archbishopric in 1492, eventually securing the dioceses of Galloway, Argyll and the Isles as suffragans. The Scottish church broke its allegiance to Rome in 1560, but bishops continued intermittently until 1689.