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Bishop of Caithness

Bishop of Caithness

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The Bishop of Caithness was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Caithness, one of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics. The first referenced bishop of Caithness was Aindréas, a Gael who appears in sources between 1146 and 1151 as bishop. Aindréas spent much if not all of his career outside his see.

Skene's map of Scottish bishoprics in the reign of David I (reigned 1124–1153).

Other bishops before Aindréas are possible, but none is documented. King David I of Scotland, is credited with founding many bishoprics, and it is possible that Caithness was one of them. Little documented history exists before the reign of King David.

The earliest bishops resided at Halkirk, with a castle at Scrabster. Bishop Gilbert de Moravia moved the episcopal seat to Dornoch in what is now Sutherland (then regarded as part of Caithness), and the bishopric remained at Dornoch Cathedral for the remainder of its existence. The Bishopric of Caithness' links with Rome ceased to exist after the Scottish Reformation, but the bishopric continued, saving temporary abolition between 1638 and 1661, under the episcopal Church of Scotland until the Revolution of 1688 led to the permanent abolition of episcopacy in the established church in Scotland (now Presbyterian in government) in 1689.

List of parishes

  1. Assynt
  2. Bower
  3. Canisbay
  4. Clyne
  5. Creich
  6. Dornoch (Cathedral)
  7. Dunbeath
  8. Dunnet
  9. Durness
  10. Farr
  11. Halkirk
  12. Kildonan
  13. Kilmalie (later Golspie)
  14. Lairg
  15. Latheron
  16. Loth
  17. Olrig
  18. Reay
  19. Rogart
  20. Skinnet
  21. Thurso
  22. Watten
  23. Wick

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List of Bishops

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List of bishopric seats

References

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    "Parish List – Scottish Place-Name Society". Retrieved 1 February 2021.
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    Black, George Fraser (2015). The surnames of Scotland : their origin, meaning, and history. [Vermont]: Birlinn, Ltd. p. 654. ISBN 9781626540590.
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  • Crawford, Barbara, "The Earldom of Caithness and the Kingdom of Scotland, 1150-1266" in Keith Stringer (ed.), Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland, (Edinburgh, 1985), pp. 25-43
  • Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
  • Jackson, Kenneth H. (ed), The Gaelic Notes in the Book of Deer, (Cambridge, 1972)
  • Keith, Robert, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688, (London, 1924)
  • Lawrie, Sir Archibald, Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D. 1153, (Glasgow, 1905)
  • Watt, D.E.R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
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