Diocesan Vocations Directors

by admin | Sep 5, 2012 | Discerning Priesthood, Featured, Preparing for Seminary, Vocations

Each diocese in Scotland has a nominated priest whose role is to promote and foster vocations to the priesthood within each diocese.

In addition, the Diocesan Vocations Director is responsible for helping a potential candidate for priesthood discern their vocation, and, if both feel ready, when the time is right, to suggest that the candidate begin the formal process of application for studies for priesthood

Below are the contact details for the Diocesan Vocations Directors from around Scotland:

Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh

Rev. Andrew Garden
St David’s
41 Eskbank Road
DALKEITH
EH22 3BH
0131 663 4286

Vocations@staned.org.uk

Diocese of Aberdeen

Rev. Mark Impson
St Mary’s
Bridgefield
STONEHAVEN
AB39 2FY
01569 762433

mark.impson@rcda.scot

Diocese of Argyll and The Isles

Rev. John Paul MacKinnon
Star of the Sea
Castlebay
Barra
HS9 5XD
01871 810267

castlebay@rcdai.org.uk

Diocese of Dunkeld

Father Mark Cassidy
St Mary’s
41 High Street
Lochee
Dundee DD2 3AP
01382 611282

st_maryschurch@btinternet.com Dunkeld Vocations Website

Diocese of Galloway

Rev. Martin Chambers
St. Matthew’s
Grassyards Rd
New Farm Loch
KILMARNOCK
KA3 7SH
01563 533587

mhartino2004@yahoo.co.uk

Archdiocese of Glasgow
Rev. Ross Campbell
Turnbull Hall
15 Southpark Terrace
Glasgow
G12 8LG
0141 339 4315

rrcchaplaincy@gla.ac.uk Archdiocese of Glasgow Vocations Facebook Page

Diocese of Motherwell

Rev. Charles O’Farrell
Our Lady & St Anne
Jack Street
Hamilton
South Lanarkshire
ML3 7QP
01698 423044

ourladystanne@rcdom.org.uk Motherwell Diocesan Website Vocations Page

Diocese of Paisley
Rev. John H. Morrison
St. Fergus’
35 Blackstoun Road
PAISLEY
PA3 1LU
0141 261 0644

vocations@rcdop.org.uk Diocese of Paisley Vocations Facebook Page

Read the Paisley Diocese Vocations Newsletter for 2016

Priests For Scotland
c/o Bishops’ Conference of Scotland
General Secretariate
64 Aitken Street
Airdrie, ML6 6LT
Email: office@pfs.org.uk
Tel. 01236 764 061

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