Armorial Bearings of the RC Diocese of Reykjavik

[Marcus Karlsson]

Armorial Bearings of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Reykjavik, Iceland. As done by Salman Diweny on Wikimedia Commons.

[Chris Green]

This must be one of the smallest RC dioceses in the whole world, with less than 12,000 faithful, two-thirds of whom are temporary residents. The fleur-de-lis probably commemorates the fact that Roman Catholicism was re-introduced to Iceland by French priests in the 1850s.

[Michael F. McCartney]

Beautifully simple arms!