List of primates of the Scottish Episcopal Church

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following people were primates of the Anglican Scottish Episcopal Church :

Term of office Surname Bishop of comment
1720-1727 John Fullerton Edinburgh First primate elected without metropolitan jurisdiction
1727-1731 Andrew Lumsden Edinburgh
1731-1738 David Freebairn Galloway, Edinburgh
1738-1743 Thomas Rattray Dark
1743-1747 Robert Keith Caithness Coadjutor of the Bishop of Edinburgh since 1727
1747-1761 Robert White District of Fife
1761-1776 William Falconer Moray
1776-1778 Edinburgh
1778-1788 Robert Kilgour Aberdeen and Orkney
1788-1816 John Skinner Aberdeen and Orkney Coadjutor of the Primate since 1778
1816-1837 George Gleig Breakin
1837-1841 James Walker Edinburgh
1841-1857 William Skinner Aberdeen and Orkney
1857-1862 Charles Hughes Terrot Edinburgh
1862-1886 Robert Eden Moray, Ross and Caithness
1886-1901 Hugh Willoughby Jermyn Breakin
1901-1904 James Butler Knill Kelly Moray, Ross and Caithness
1904-1907 George Howard Wilkinson St Andrews
1908-1935 Walter John Forbes Robberds Breakin
1935-1943 Arthur John MacLean Moray, Ross and Caithness
1943-1946 Ernest Denny Logie Danson Edinburgh
1946-1952 John Charles Halland How Glasgow and Galloway
1952-1962 Thomas Hannay Argyll and the Isles
1962-1974 Francis Hamilton Moncrieff Glasgow and Galloway
1974-1977 Richard Knyvet Wimbush Argyll and the Isles
1977-1985 Alastair Iain Macdonald Haggart Edinburgh
1985-1992 Lawrence Edward Luscombe Breakin
1992-2000 Richard Holloway Edinburgh
2001-2006 Bruce Cameron Aberdeen and Orkney
2006-2009 Idris Jones Glasgow and Galloway
2009-2017 David Chillingworth Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane
2017 – today Mark Strange Moray, Ross and Caithness