List of the Bishops of Aberdeen

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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
  • 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