List of the bishops of Moray

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The following persons held the office of Bishop of Moray ( Scotland ):

  • 1114x1120–1127x1131 Gregor
  • 1152x1153-1162 Wilhelm
  • 1164x1166-1171 Felix
  • 1171-1184 Simon de Tosny
  • 1187-1203 Richard de Lincoln
  • 1203-1222 Brice Douglas
  • 1222-1242 Andrew de Moravia
  • 1244-1251 Simon de Gunby
  • 1251–1252 Radulf by Lincoln ( Elekt )
  • 1253-1298 Archibald
  • 1299-1326 David de Moravia
  • 1326-1362 John de Pilmuir
  • 1363-1397 Alexander Bur
  • 1397-1406 William de Spynie
  • 1407-1414 John de Innes
  • 1415–1422 Henry de Lichton (afterwards Bishop of Aberdeen)
  • 1422-1435 Columba de Dunbar
  • 1435-1460 John de Winchester
  • 1460-1462 James Stewart
  • 1463-1476 David Stewart
  • 1477–1482 William de Tulloch (previously Bishop of Orkney)
  • 1482-1501 Andrew Stewart
  • 1501–1514x1516 Andrew Forman (afterwards Archbishop of St Andrews)
  • 1516-1524 James Hepburn
  • 1525-1527 Robert Shaw
    • 1528 Alexander Douglas I.
  • 1529-1537 Alexander Stewart
  • 1538–1573 Patrick Hepburn

Bishops of the Church of Scotland

  • 1574–1589 George Douglas
  • 1602–1623 Alexander Douglas II.
  • 1623-1638 John Guthrie
  • 1638–1661 bishopric abolished
  • 1662–1677 Murdoch MacKenzie (afterwards Bishop of Orkney)
  • 1677–1680 James Aitken (later Bishop of Galloway)
  • 1680–1686 Colin Falconer (previously Bishop of Argyll)
  • 1687 Alexander Rose (afterwards Bishop of Edinburgh)
  • 1688-1689 William Hay


  • 1707 united with Edinburgh and 1725 united with Aberdeen

Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church

  • 1727 William Dunbar
  • 1737 George Hay (Elect)
  • 1742 William Falconar
  • 1777 Arthur Petrie
  • 1787 Andrew Macfarlane
  • 1798 Alexander Jolly
  • 1819 David Low
  • 1851 Robert Eden
  • 1886 James Butler Knill Kelly
  • 1904 Arthur John Maclean
  • 1943 Piers Holt Wilson
  • 1953 Duncan Macinnes
  • 1970 George Minshull Sessford
  • 1994 Gregor Macgregor
  • 1999 John Michael Crook
  • 2007 Mark Strange

literature

  • John Dowden: The Bishops of Scotland, Being Notes on the Lives of All the Bishops Under Each of the Sees Prior to the Reformation. Glasgow 1912.
  • Robert Keith et al.: An historical catalog of the Scottish bishops, down to the year 1688. Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh 1824. ( Online edition in the Google book search)
  • DD Hew Scot: Fasti ecclesiæ scoticanæ; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation. Volume VI: Synods of Aberdeen and of Moray. revised and expanded edition. Oliver and Boyd: Edinburgh 1915. ( digitized )