Immaculate Conception Church, Stratherrick | |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Location: | Whitebridge, Inverness-shire |
Country: | Scotland |
Coordinates: | 57.2193°N -4.4942°W |
Status: | Parish church |
Functional Status: | Active |
Architect: | Ross & Joass of Dingwall |
Completed Date: | 1859 |
Parish: | Loch Ness Catholic Parishes |
Deanery: | Highlands |
Diocese: | Aberdeen |
Priest: | Fr Andrzej Harden SJ |
Immaculate Conception Church, Stratherrick is in the Dalcrag area of Whitebridge (gd|An Drochaid Bhàn), Inverness-shire, in the Highlands of Scotland and is a served by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen.[1] It is an active parish church served from St Mary's Church, Inverness. It forms part of the grouping "Loch Ness Catholic Parishes".[2] It is also the location of the Christian pilgrimage shrine to 'Our Lady of the Highlands' within its grounds. A new outdoor Mass stone at this shrine, or Marian grotto, was consecrated by Bishop Hugh Gilbert in March 2017.[3]
The church was built following Catholic Emancipation in 1859 by Ross and Joass.[4] The original wooden altar was later replaced by one in marble which was removed from St Mary's, Nairn. Prior to the church being built, the Tridentine Mass was offered in a house in Dalcrag by a priest based in Glenmoriston, who rowed across Loch Ness to say Mass.
St. Mary MacKillop visited this church on 12–13 December 1873, during a visit from Australia and remarked upon the clean and simple quarters of the Parish Priest, Fr. Bissett.[5]