List of the bishops and archbishops of St Andrews

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The following people were Bishops and Archbishops of St Andrews and Cill Rìmhinn ( Scotland ), respectively :

Bishops of St Andrews / Cennrígmonaid (Cell Rígmonaid or Kilrymont)

  • Túathalán († 747) ( Abbot )

Archbishops of St Andrews

Apostolic Prefects

  • William Ballantine (1653–1661)
  • Alexander Winchester (1662-1693)

Vicars Apostolic of Scotland

  • Thomas Nicolson (1694-1718)
  • James Gordon (1718-1746)
  • Alexander Smith (1746–1767)
  • James Grant (1767–1778)
  • George Hay (1778–1805), Titular Bishop of Daulia
  • Alexander Cameron (1805-1825)
  • Alexander Paterson (1825-1831)
  • Andrew Carruthers (1832-1852)
  • James Gillies (1852-1864)
  • John Menzies Strain (1864-1878)

Archbishops of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh

literature

  • Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson: St. Andrews before Alexander I. In: GWS Barrow (Ed.): The Scottish Tradition. Essays in honor of Ronald Gordon Cant. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh 1974, ISBN 0-7011-2039-8 , pp. 1-13 ( University of St. Andrews. Publications 60).
  • GWS Barrow: The Clergy of St Andrews. In: GWS Barrow: The Kingdom of the Scots. Government, Church and Society from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. 2nd edition. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2003, ISBN 0-7486-1803-1 , pp. 187-202.
  • Walter Bower : Scotichronicon. General editor DER Watt. Volume 3: John MacQueen, Winifred MacQueen (Eds.): Books V and VI. New edition in Latin and English, with notes and indexes. Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen 1995, ISBN 1-87364-449-3 .
  • John Dowden: The Bishops of Scotland being notes on the lives of all the bishops, under each of the sees, prior to the reformation. Edited by J. Maitland Thomson. MacLehose, Glasgow 1912.
  • Robert Keith et al., An historical catalog of the Scottish bishops, down to the year 1688. , Bell & Bradfute: Edinburgh 1824. Online edition