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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Scotland (9453 words) |
 | The part of Scotland lying beyond the Firths of Forth and Clyde was known to the Romans as Caledonia. |
| Bede mentions that Iona long held pre-eminence over all the monasteries of the Picts, and it continued in fact, all during the monastic period of the Scottish Church, to be the centre of the Columban jurisdiction. |
| Kentigern may be called the founder of the Church of Cumbria, and became the first bishop of what is now Glasgow; while in the east of Scotland Lothian honours as its first apostle the great St. Cuthbert, who entered the monastery of Melrose in 650, and became bishop, with his see at Lindisfarne, in 684. |
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