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Recruitment – Office Administrator

St Mary’s Cathedral is currently looking for an experienced Office Administrator to provide administrative support within St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow.

Within this role, you will be responsible for preparing service sheets and orders of service, managing enquiries, maintaining records and coordinating diaries. You will also support communications and provide general administrative support to clergy, colleagues and volunteers, helping to ensure the smooth running of the Cathedral office.

As a first point of contact, you will need a helpful and sensitive approach, recognising that people may contact the Cathedral at significant or difficult times in their lives.

You should have previous experience of providing administrative support, good organisational and interpersonal skills, and clear written and verbal communication. Attention to detail, IT literacy and the ability to prioritise your workload and work independently are also important.

An understanding of music, particularly choral music, would be advantageous but not essential.

This is a part-time role, normally working an average of 16–20 hours per week over four days, based at the Cathedral. Additional hours will be required at busy times within the Cathedral calendar, including specified weeks during Lent, Advent and in preparation for the AGM, when hours will increase to 35 hours per week.

The appointment is for a fixed term of 18 months, to allow a review of the Cathedral’s administrative processes.

To apply for this role, please submit your CV and a covering letter to recruitment [at] thecathedral.org.uk

Closing date for applications is Sunday 15th November 2026. [Read more…]

Requiem 2026

The annual service at which the names of those who have died will be remembered, particularly remembering those who have died in the last year, will take place on Sunday 1 November 2026 at 5 pm.

Names can be added using the online form below.

All Souls Requiem Names 2026

Please use this form for remembering an individual, and enter other individual names on a fresh form submission.

Your Details

Your First Name *

Your Last Name *

Your Email *

Details of the person being remembered

Please use this form for only one name. If you would like to add other names, please use the form again.

First names of the person you would like to be remembered *

Last name of the person you would like to be remembered *

Year in which the person died

Enter this detail if you can remember the year in which the person died.

Notes - please note how to pronounce any names which might not be obvious

If you are human, leave this field blank.

Record of Organ Project Benefactors

If you would like an entry to be included in the record of Organ Project Benefactors, please complete the form at https://thecathedral.org.uk/record-of-organ-project-benefactors/

Young Adults & Students

A group of Young Adults worship at St Mary’s, some of whom participate in the following additional activities as well…

20s & 30s/Young Adults Bible Study at St Mary’s – happens every fortnight.
Rosary Prayer Group – fortnightly on a Wednesday
Activities at the Chaplaincy of the University of Glasgow – https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/chaplaincy/ and https://ugac.online/
The Village – a weekly social space for young adults in the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway

Service Times

Sunday Services
9 am – Plainsong Eucharist – with Cantor
11 am – Sung Eucharist with refreshments afterwards
5 pm – Choral Evensong

Monday – Saturday
9.30 am – Morning Prayer – Eucharist on some Feast Days
11 am – Tuesdays – Eucharist every week

Anglican Communion

St Mary’s Cathedral is the Cathedral Church of the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway in the Scottish Episcopal Church. All churches of the Scottish Episcopal Church are part of the Anglican Communion. St Mary’s is composed of people who have previous experience of many religious backgrounds.