The Archdeaconry of Lothian, located in modern-day Scotland, was a sub-division of the diocese of St Andrews, one of two

archdeacon An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o ...

ries within the diocese and in essence that part of the diocese which lay south of the Forth. The

Lothian Lothian (; sco, Lowden, Loudan, -en, -o(u)n; gd, Lodainn ) is a region of the Scottish Lowlands, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills and the Moorfoot Hills. The principal settlement is the Sco ...

archdeaconry was headed by the Archdeacon of Lothian, a subordinate of the

Bishop of St Andrews The Bishop of St. Andrews ( gd, Easbaig Chill Rìmhinn, sco, Beeshop o Saunt Andras) was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of St Andrews in the Catholic Church and then, from 14 August 1472, as Archbishop of St Andrews ( gd, Àrd-easbaig ...

Organisation

In the medieval period, the Archdeaconry of Lothian contained three deaneries: Linlithgow, Haddington and Merse.

Deanery of Linlithgow

Deanery of Lothian or Haddington

Deanery of the Merse

References

* McNeill, Peter G.B. & MacQueen, Hector L. (eds), ''Atlas of Scottish History to 1707'', (Edinburgh, 1996) * Watt, D.E.R., ''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638'', 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969), pp. 309–14 *

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