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Here's why John Swinney was invited to attend the Pope's funeral

John Swinney is the First Minister of Scotland, a country recognised by Rome with its own national hierarchy. The Catholic hierarchy in Scotland had been re-constituted in 1878, following its earlier demise in 1603 with the death of Archbishop Beaton. READ MORE: Scottish Labour by-election candidate gets pope's name wrong An independent Catholic hierarchy in Scotland had first been established by King Robert Bruce as part of the arrangements around the 1328 Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton, which abolished the English claim to our Crown. The York claim to suzerainty over the Scottish Church at St Andrew's was ended. The Church had strongly supported Wallace and Bruce in the cause of Scottish independence to end the York claim. (A separate Scottish aristocracy was also agreed in 1328.) Until 1328, the Scottish Catholic Church had merely had the semi-national status of 'Special Daughter' under Rome. Councillor Tom Johnston Cumbernauld