• The Archdeacon of Aberdeen was the only archdeacon in the Diocese of Aberdeen, acting as a deputy of the Bishop of Aberdeen. The archdeacon held the parish...
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  • railway station Rayne, Aberdeenshire, location of the parish church held by the Archdeacon of Aberdeen in Scotland, UK Rayne, Louisiana, U.S. Rayne High...
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    John Barbour (poet) (category Writers from Aberdeen)
    Barbour was latterly Archdeacon of the Diocese of Aberdeen in Scotland. He also studied in Oxford and Paris. Although he was a man of the church, his surviving...
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  • Kininmund (d. 1344), archdeacon of Lothian and bishop of Aberdeen Alexander de Kininmund (d. 1380), archdeacon of Aberdeen and bishop of Aberdeen This disambiguation...
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    Cathedral is a Church of Scotland church in Aberdeen, Scotland, located to the north of the city centre, in the former burgh of Old Aberdeen. Technically, St...
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  • The Archdeacon of Caithness was the only archdeacon in the Diocese of Caithness, acting as a deputy of the Bishop of Caithness. The following is a list...
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    Alexander de Kininmund (died 1380) (category Bishops of Aberdeen)
    in the Arts. He was made Dean of Brechin Cathedral in 1350, leaving this post in 1352 to become Archdeacon of Aberdeen. It was the later position that...
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  • Compiled by Master John Barbour, archdeacon of Aberdeen, A.D. 1375. Edition from manuscript G. 23 in the library of St. John's College, Cambridge, written...
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    Henry de Lichton (category Bishops of Aberdeen)
    Archdeacon of Aberdeen by 1395, holding this position into the following year, 1396. After the death of Bishop John de Innes in 1414, the chapter of Elgin...
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  • Edward, Bishop of Aberdeen c.1147–c.1150: William Cumin bef.1150-1153: Walter, possibly Walter fitz Alan 1153–1165: Enguerrand, Bishop of Glasgow 1165-1171:...
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    became Archdeacon of Aberdeen in 1352. James Kynimond of that Ilk asserted his hereditary right to the offices of baillie, steward and marischal of St Andrews...
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  • Became Bishop of Aberdeen. Became Bishop of St Andrews. Became Bishop of St Andrews. Became Bishop of Dunblane. Seal of St Andrews archdeacon used in this...
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  • John Fraser (bishop) (category Bishops of Ross (Scotland))
    election of Robert Blackadder as Bishop of Aberdeen on 14 July 1480, Fraser received provision to the now vacant position of Archdeacon of Aberdeen; he did...
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  • The Diocese of Aberdeen was originally believed to be the direct continuation of an 11th-century bishopric at Mortlach in present-day Moray. However, this...
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  • John de Rait (category Bishops of Aberdeen)
    attained a Master's Degree in his youth; he was Archdeacon of Aberdeen between 1342 and 1350, and Precentor of Elgin Cathedral between 1349 and 1350. He resigned...
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  • Jerome Frescobaldi (category Court of James IV of Scotland)
    Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St Andrews. He arranged the payment for the Papal bulls to appoint the Archdeacon of Aberdeen, and later made payments for...
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  • the last of the pre-Reformation bishops of Aberdeen owing allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Aberdeenshire, he was the son of Janet Stewart...
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  • Doctor of the Church Thomas the Apostle Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple)...
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    16th-century bishop of Aberdeen. He was the son of Sir Alexander Dunbar of Westfield, near Elgin and Elizabeth Sutherland, apparently a daughter of Alexander Sutherland...
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  • John de Crannach (category Bishops of Brechin (pre-Reformation))
    May 1406. He was regent of the Arts between 1406 and his departure from the university in 1417. The famous archdeacon of Aberdeen and poet, John Barbour...
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  • The Archdeacon of Moray was the only archdeacon in the Diocese of Moray, acting as a deputy of the Bishop of Moray. The archdeacon held the parish churches...
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  • The Archdeacon of Dunkeld was the only archdeacon in the Diocese of Dunkeld, acting as a deputy of the Bishop of Dunkeld. The following is a list of archdeacons:...
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  • of Windsor (became Bishop of Durham) 1476: John Gunthorpe, Dean of Wells and, until 1478, Archdeacon of Essex c. 1483: William Chauntre, Archdeacon of...
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  • The Archdeacon of Lothian was the head of the Archdeaconry of Lothian, a sub-division of the Diocese of St Andrews. The position was one of the most important...
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  • Thomas Spens (category Bishops of Aberdeen)
    became bishop of Galloway; soon afterwards he was made Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland, and in 1459 he was chosen bishop of Aberdeen. Much of his time...
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  • The Archdeacon of Glasgow was the head of the Archdeaconry of Glasgow, a sub-division of the Diocese of Glasgow. He was one of two archdeacons serving...
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  • between August 1147 and June 1152. Bishop Edward, Bishop of Aberdeen, died in 1172 and Archdeacon Matthew was elected as the successor. He was consecrated...
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    St Andrews Glasgow Aberdeen Edinburgh The ancient universities of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Oilthighean ann an Alba) are medieval and renaissance universities...
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  • Archdeacon of Hampstead John Hawley – Archdeacon of Blackburn Bob Jeffery – Archdeacon of Salop, Dean of Worcester David Jenkins – Archdeacon of Westmorland...
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  • an Anglican Archdeacon in Ireland in the late eighteenth century. Alcock was the son of Rev. John Alcock, Dean of Ferns, and grandson of Rev. Alexander...
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