DUNKELD, Diocese of. - In Scotland; it is a suffragan of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, with its residence in Dundee. It has an area of 9,505.46 sq. km. and comprises the counties of Angus, Clackmannan, the upper part of Fife, Kinross and Perth.

It has a population of 353,363 inhabitants, of whom 40,000 are Catholics, with 22 parishes, 49 churches, 42 diocesan priests and 19 regulars (Franciscans and Redemptorists). In addition, in the diocese there are the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the Sisters of Mercy and the Sisters of the Sacred Heart.

The establishment of the diocese is earlier than 1115; thirty-five were the bishops known from its foundation to 1585, in which year it remained vacant; among them are remembered James Kennedy (1438-40), Gavin Douglas (1516-21) and John Hamilton (1545-47); the last was Robert Crichton.

The diocese was reconstituted on 4 March 1878 by Leo XIII, with the bull: Ex supremo apostolatus apice.

The ancient cathedral of D., situated near the river Tay, was begun in 1220 and completed at the end of the 15th century; it was seriously damaged by Robert II of Scotland (1316-90); then a part of it was reduced to a Presbyterian church.

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BIBL.: D. O. Hunter-Blair, s. v. in Cath. Enc., V, coll. 193-194; The Catholic Directory, 1948, London 1948, pp. 303-95.

Enrico Josi

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