List of bishops by Ross

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The following people were Bishops of Ross ( Scotland ):

  • around 690x710 Curetán (Bishop and Abbot of Ross maic Bairend)
  • at 1127x1131 Mac Bethad (Macbeth)
  • 1147x1150 – before 1160 Simon
  • 1161-1195 Gregory
  • 1195–1213 Reinald Macer (Reginald)
  • 1213x1214 Andreas de Moravia ( Elekt ) (also Bishop of Moray)
  • 1214-1249 Robert I.
  • 1249–1271 Robert II.
  • 1272-1274 Matthew
  • 1275-1292x1295 Robert III. de Fyvin
  • 1292x1295 Adam de Darlington (Elect)
  • 1293x1295-1325 Thomas of Dundee
  • 1325-1350 Roger
  • 1350-1371 Alexander Stewart
  • 1371-1398 Alexander Kylquhous
  • 1398-1416x1418 Alexander de Waghorn
  • 1416x1418 Thomas Lyell (Elect)
    • 1418–1422 Griffin Yonge (opposing bishop) (previously Bishop of Bangor)
  • 1418-1439x1440 John Bullock
  • 1440–1441 Andrew de Munro (Elect)
  • 1440–1460x1461 Thomas de Tullach (Thomas Urquhart)
  • 1461-1476 Henry Cockburn
  • 1476-1480x1481 John Woodman
  • 1481–1483 William Elphinstone (then Bishop of Aberdeen)
  • 1483–1488x1491 Thomas Hay
  • 1491-1492x1494 John Guthrie
  • 1497-1507 John Fraser
  • 1507–1524 Robert Cockburn (afterwards Bishop von Dunkeld)
  • 1524-1538 James Hay
  • 1538–1545 Robert Cairncross
  • 1547–1558 David Paniter
  • 1558-1565 Henry Sinclair
  • 1566–1568 / 1573 John Lesley (afterwards Bishop of Coutances)
  • 1574-1578 Alexander Hepburn
  • 1600–1613 David Lindsay
  • 1613–1633 Patrick Lindsay (then Archbishop of Glasgow)
  • 1633-1638 John Maxwell
  • 1638–1661 bishopric abolished
  • 1662-1679 John Paterson
  • 1679–1684 Alexander Young (previously Bishop of Edinburgh)
  • 1684–1689 James Ramsay (previously Bishop of Dunblane)

Since 1688/1690, the Glorious Revolution, the episcopate in the Church of Scotland has been abolished for good.
See Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church at List of Bishops of Moray

  • Bishopric united first with Caithness and then with Moray