List of primates of the Scottish Episcopal Church
The following people were primates of the Anglican Scottish Episcopal Church :
Term of office | Surname | Bishop of | comment |
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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 |