History

The Church of St Margaret's in Lerwick, opened for workship in 1911, is the northernmost Catholic Parish Church in the British Isles. Lerwick is the administrative capital ot the Shetland Islands, one hundred or so in all, and fifteen of which are inhabitet.
Today, the parish of Shetland consists of about 400 people from a variety of places including England, Scotland and Ireland, the United States and Poland. You also meet Catholic from Germany, Belgium, Malta and Philippines. Very few are native Shetlanders.
Catholics in Shetland from part of the Diocese of Aberdeen with their Bishop living an hour's aeroplane journey away. Yet modern means of communications overcome problems of distance.
Several members of the parish trained to become Catechists using the Open University model of distance learning. This was done by the Diocesan Ogilivie Institute and Birmingham's Maryvale Institute.