List of the Bishops of Galloway
The following people were bishops of Galloway ( Scotland ):
Bishops of Whithorn
- Holy Ninian , † 432?
- (?) Octa
- 681 Trumwine
- 731 Pehthelm, † 735
- 735 Frithwald, † 764
- 763 Pehtwine, † 776
- 777 Æthelbert (afterwards Bishop of Hexham)
- 791 Beadwulf, † 803
- 833 Heathored (last known Anglo-Saxon bishop of Whithorn)
Bishops of Galloway
- 1128-1154 Gille Aldan
- 1154-1186 Christian
- 1189-1209 John
- 1209-1235 Walter
- 1235-1253 Gilbert
- 1235 Odo Ydonc ( Elect )
- 1253-1293 Henry
- 1294-1319 / 24 Thomas of Dalton
- 1326-1354 Simon of Wedale
- 1355-1358 × 1359 Michael MacKenlagh
- 1358 × 1359–1362 × 1363 Thomas MacDowell (Elekt)
- David Douglas, † 1373
- -1373 James Carron
- 1363-1378 Adam de Lanark
- around 1379 Oswald (counter-bishop in the occidental schism )
- 1378 × 1379 Ingram de Ketenis (Elect)
- 1379-1393 × 1394 Thomas de Rossy
- ? Francis Ramsay, † 1402
- 1409-1412 × 1415 Elisaeus Adougan
- 1412 × 1415 Gilbert Caven (elect)
- 1415-1422 × 1422 Thomas de Buittle (Butil)
- 1422–1450 Alexander Vaus (previously Bishop of Caithness)
- 1450-1458 Thomas Spens (afterwards Bishop of Aberdeen)
- 1458-1480 x 1482 Ninian de Spot
- 1482-1508 George Vaus
- 1508–1509 James Beaton (also Archbishop of Glasgow)
- 1509-1526 David Arnot
- 1526-1541 Henry Wemys
- 1541–1558 Andrew Durie
- 1559–1575 Alexander Gordon
- 1575–1586 John Gordon
- 1586–1588 George Gordon
- 1588-1605 Vacant
- 1605-1612 Gavin Hamilton
- 1612-1619 William Coupar
- 1619–1634 Andrew Lamb (previously Bishop of Brechin)
- 1635–1638 Thomas Sydserf (afterwards Bishop of Orkney, † 1663)
- 1638–1661 dissolution of the diocese
- 1661–1674 James Hamilton of Broomhill
- 1676–1679 John Paterson (afterwards Bishop of Edinburgh)
- 1679 Arthur Ross (previously Bishop of Argyll, then Archbishop of Glasgow and St Andrews)
- 1680–1687 James Aitken (previously Bishop of Moray)
- 1687–1688 John Gordon, † 1726
- 1878-1893 John McLachlan
- 1893-1914 William Turner
- 1914-1943 James William McCarthy
- 1943–1952 William Henry Mellon
- 1952-1981 Joseph Michael McGee
- 1981-2004 Maurice Taylor
- 2004-2014 John Cunningham
- since 2014 William Nolan