List of the bishops of Brechin

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The following people were bishops of Brechin ( Scotland ):

Abbots

  • around 1131x1150 Léot (father of the first bishop Samson)
  • around the late 1100s Domnall
  • around early 1200s Eion mac in Aba

Bishops

  • x 1150–1165 × 1169 Samson
  • 1178-1189 x 1198 Turpin
  • x 1198–1199–1212 Radulf (Radulphus, Ralf)
  • 1214 × 1215–1218 Hugo (Hugh, Áed)
  • 1218-1246 Gregory
  • 1246-1269 Albin
  • 1269 × 1275 William de Crachin ( Elekt )
  • 1275–1291 × 1297 William de Kilconcath (Comyn)
  • 1296 × 1298 Nicholas
  • 1298-1323 × 1327 John de Kininmund
  • 1328-1349 Adam de Moravia
  • 1350-1351 Philip Wilde
  • 1351–1373 × 1383 Patrick de Leuchars (Locrys)
  • 1383-1404 × 1405 Stephen de Cellario
  • 1407-1425 × 1426 Walter Forrester
  • 1426–1453 John de Crannach (previously Bishop of Caithness)
  • 1454-1462 George de Schoriswood
  • 1463–1465 Patrick Graham (afterwards Bishop of St. Andrews)
  • 1465-1488 John Balfour
  • 1488-1514 × 1516 William Meldrum
  • 1516-1557 John Hepburn
  • 1557–1559 Donald Campbell (Elect)

Bishops of the Church of Scotland

  • 1565–1566 John Sinclair (Elect)
  • 1566-1607 Alexander Campbell
  • 1607–1619 Andrew Lamb (then Bishop of Galloway)
  • 1619–1634 David Lindsay (afterwards Bishop of Edinburgh)
  • 1634–1635 Thomas Sydserf (then Bishop of Galloway)
  • 1635-1638 Walter Whiteford
  • 1638–1661 bishopric abolished
  • 1662–1671 David Strachan
  • 1671–1677 Robert Laurie
  • 1678–1682 George Haliburton (afterwards Bishop of Aberdeen)
  • 1682–1684 Robert Douglas (then Bishop of Dunblane)
  • 1684 Alexander Cairncross (afterwards Archbishop of Glasgow)
  • 1684-1688 James Drummond

Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church

  • United with Edinburgh 1695–1709
  • 1709 John Falconar
  • 1724 Robert Norrie
  • 1726 John Ochterlonie
  • 1742 James Rait
  • 1778 George Innes
  • 1787 William Abernethy Drummond
  • 1788 John Strachan
  • 1810 George Gleig
  • 1840 David Moir
  • 1847 Alexander Penrose Forbes
  • 1876 ​​Hugh Willoughby Jermyn
  • 1904 Walter John Forbes Robberds
  • 1935 Kenneth Donald Mackenzie
  • 1944 Eric Graham
  • 1959 John Chappell Sprott
  • 1975 Lawrence Edward Luscombe
  • 1990 Robert Taylor Halliday
  • 1997 Neville Chamberlain
  • 2005 John Mantle
  • 2011 Nigel Peyton