List of the bishops of Caithness

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The following people were Bishops of Caithness ( Scotland ):

  • 1146x1151–1184 Andreas I (first known bishop)
  • 1184x1199–1202 Johannes
  • 1213–1222 Adam (Bishop) I (previously abbot of Melrose )
  • 1222x1223–1245 Gilbert de Moravia (moves the bishopric from Halkirk to Dornoch )
  • 1246x1247-1255 Wilhelm
  • 1263-1270 Walter de Baltrodin
  • 1272x1273 Nicholas ( Elekt ) (also Abbot of Scone )
  • 1274-1275x1278 Archibald Heroch
  • 1278–1279 Richard (Elect)
  • 1279–1282 Hervey de Donodei (Elect)
  • 1282-1291 Alan de St. Edmund
  • 1291x1296 Johannes (Elect)
  • 1296 Adam de Darlington
  • 1296x1297-1304 Andrew II. De Buchan
  • 1304-1321x1327 Farquhar Bellejambe
  • 1328-1329x1341 David
  • 1341-1342 Alan de Moravia
  • 1342-1365x1369 Thomas de Fingask
  • 1369–1379x1380 Maol Choluim (Malcolm de Dumbrek)
  • 1381-1412 Alexander Man
  • 1414-1422 Alexander de Vaus
  • 1422-1426 John de Cranach
  • 1427-1445x1446 Robert de Strathbrock
  • 1446-1447x1448 John Innes
  • 1448-1477 William Mudy
  • 1478–1484 Prosper Camogli de'Medici (Prospero Cannilio de Jauna)
  • 1484 John Sinclair (Elect)
  • 1501-1517 Andrew Stewart I.
  • 1517–1540x1541 Andrew Stewart II.
    • 1544–1548 Alexander Gordon (counterbishop) (also Archbishop of Glasgow)
  • 1542–1586 Robert Stewart (Elect)
  • 1586–1587 Robert Pont
  • 1600–1604 George Gledstanes (afterwards Archbishop of St. Andrews)
  • 1604–1616 Alexander Forbes (then Bishop of Aberdeen)
  • 1616-1638 John Abernethy
  • 1638 Robert Hamilton
  • 1638–1661 bishopric abolished
  • 1662-1680 Patrick Forbes
  • 1680–1689 Andrew Wood, † 1695


  • Diocese united first with Ross and then with Moray

See Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church at List of Bishops of Moray

  • 1731–1757 Robert Keith (born February 7, 1681)
  • 1741–1778 William Falconer (or Falconar) (* 1707), 1741 coadjutor bishop
  • 1762–1775 Robert Forbes (* 1708)