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Aberdeen and Orkney

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Description of arms. Azure, parted per pale: dexter, a chevron round embattled on its upper edge between a fleur-de-lis argent ensigned of an open crown or in dexter chief, and in base a bishop proper, attired of the second, mitred and holding in his sinister hand a pastoral staff of the third, his dexter hand raised in benediction over three children gules issuant from a cauldron of the third; sinister, an open boat or, an anchor argent pendant from its prow, issuant therefrom a saint proper, attired of the third, enhaloed and holding in his sinister hand a pastoral staff of the second; over all and issuant from the chief a sunburst or, the central ray projected along the palar line to the base.

Aberdeen and Orkney

BISHOPS AT MURTHLAC

(?) Beyn [Beanus]

(?) Donort

(?) Cormac

BISHOPS AT ABERDEEN

1132 Nechtan

c.1150 Edward

c.1172 Matthew

c.1201 John

c.1208 Adam de Kalder

1228 Matthew Scot (elect)

1230 Gilbert de Strivelyn

1240 Radulf de Lamley

1247 Peter de Ramsey

1258 Richard de Pottun

1272 Hugh de Bennum

1282 Henry le Chene

1329 Walter Herok (elect)

1329 Alexander I, de Kyninmund

1344 William de Deyn

1351 John de Rate

1356 Alexander II, de Kyninmund

1380 Adam de Tynyngham

1391 Gilbert de Grenlaw

1422 Henry de Lychton [Leighton]

c.1441 Ingram de Lindsay

1458 Thomas Spens

1480 Robert Blackadder (elect)

1488 William Elphinstone

1515 Robert Forman (elect)

1516 Alexander Gordon

1519 Gavin Dunbar

1529 George Learmonth [coadjutor]

1533 William Stewart

1547 William Gordon

1577 David Cunningham (elect)

1611 Peter Blackburn

1616 Alexander Forbes

1618 Patrick Forbes of Corse

1635 Adam Bellenden [Bannatyne]

1662 David Mitchell

1663 Alexander Burnet

1664 Patrick Scougal

1682 George Halyburton

[1715–21 See vacant]

1721 Archibald Campbell

1724 James Gadderar

1733 William Dunbar

1746 Andrew Gerard

1768 Robert Kilgour

1786 John Skinner

1816 William Skinner

1857 Thomas George Spink Suther

1883 Arthur Gascoigne Douglas

1906 Rowland Ellis

1912 Anthony Mitchell

1917 Frederic Llewellyn Deane

1943 Herbert William Hall

1956 Edward Frederick Easson

1973 Ian Forbes Begg

1978 Frederick Charles Darwent

1992 Andrew Bruce Cameron

2007 Robert Arthur Gillies

2018 Anne Catherine Dyer

 

Orkney

1035 Henry

1050 Turolf

1072 John I

1072 Adalbert

1073 Radulf

1102 William I, ‘the Old’

1108 Roger

1114 Radulf Novell

1168(?) William II

1188(?) Bjarni

1224 Jofreyrr

1248 Henry I

1270 Peter

1286 Dolgfinn

1310 William III

c.1369 William IV

c.1384 Robert Sinclair

1384(?) John

1394 Henry II

1396(?) John Pak

1407 Alexander Vaus (elect)

1415 William Stephenson

1420 Thomas Tulloch

1461 William Tulloch

1477 Andrew Painter

1500 Edward Stewart

1524 John Benston [coadjutor]

1526(?) Robert Maxwell

1541 Robert Reid

1559 Adam Bothwell

1611 James Law

1615 George Graham

1639 Robert Barron (elect)

1661 Thomas Sydserf

1664 Andrew Honeyman

1677 Murdo Mackenzie

1688 Andrew Bruce, See afterwards administered with Caithness

1857 Held with Aberdeen