List of the Bishops of Aberdeen
The following people were bishops of the Diocese of Aberdeen ( Scotland ):
Bishops of Mortlach (Murthlac)
- around 1000 Beóán (Beanus)
- around 1000 Donercius (Donort)
- around 1000 Cormac (Cormauch)
Bishops of Aberdeen
- approx. 1131x1132 Nechtan
- approx. 1147x1151–1171 Edward (Bishop)
- 1172–1199 Matthew (bishop)
- 1199-1207 John
- 1207-1228 Adam de Kald
- 1228 × 1229 Matthias, the Scot ( Elekt ) (Chancellor of King Wilhelm I , also Elekt von Dunkeld)
- 1228–1239 Gilbert de Stirling (Strivelyn)
- 1239-1247 Radulf de Lamley
- 1247-1256 Peter de Ramsay
- 1256-1270 × 1272 Richard de Potton
- 1272-1281 x 1282 Hugh of Bennum
- 1282-1328 Henry Cheyne
- 1329 Walter Herok (Elect)
- 1329-1343 × 1344 Alexander I. de Kininmund
- 1344-1350 William de Deyn
- 1350-1354 × 1355 John de Rait
- 1355-1380 Alexander II. De Kininmund
- 1380-1389 Adam de Tyningham
- 1389-1421 Gilbert de Greenlaw
- 1422–1440 Henry de Lichton (previously Bishop of Moray)
- 1441-1458 Ingram Lindsay
- 1458–1480 Thomas Spens (previously Bishop of Galloway)
- 1480–1483 Robert Blackadder (Elekt) (also Bishop of Glasgow)
- 1483–1514 William Elphinstone (previously Bishop of Ross)
- 1515–1516 Robert Forman (Elect)
- 1516-1518 Alexander Gordon
- 1518-1532 Gavin Dunbar
- 1529–1531 George Learmond ( Coadjutor )
- 1532-1545 William Stewart
- 1545–1577 William Gordon (last Roman Catholic bishop)
Bishops of Aberdeen of the Church of Scotland
- 1577–1600 David Cunningham (Elect)
- 1600-1616 Peter Blackburn
- 1616–1617 Alexander Forbes (previously Bishop of Caithness)
- 1618-1635 Patrick Forbes
- 1635–1638 Adam Bellenden (previously Bishop of Dunblane, † 1648)
- 1638–1661 bishopric abolished
- 1662 David Mitchel
- 1663–1664 Alexander Burnet (afterwards Archbishop of Glasgow)
- 1664-1682 Patrick Scougal
- 1682–1688 George Haliburton
Bishopric is dissolved
Vicars Apostolic of the Highland District
- 16. – 19. September 1727 Alexander John Grant
- 1731-1773 Hugh MacDonald
- 1773-1779 John MacDonald
- 1779-1791 Alexander MacDonald
- 1791-1814 John Chisholm
- 1814-1818 Aeneas Chisholm
- Ranald MacDonald 1819-1827
Vicars Apostolic of the Northern District
- 1827-1869 James Kyle
- 1869-1878 John MacDonald
Bishops of Aberdeen
- 1878-1889 John MacDonald
- July 16, 1889 to September 26, 1889 Colin Grant
- 1890-1898 Hugh McDonald, CSsR
- 1899-1918 Aeneas Chisholm
- 1918–1946 George Henry Bennett
- 1947–1950 John Alexander Matheson
- 1951–1963 Francis Raymond Walsh, MAfr
- 1964-1976 Michael Foylan
- 1977–2002 Mario Joseph Conti (later Archbishop of Glasgow)
- 2003–2011 Peter Antony Moran
- since 2011 Hugh Gilbert OSB