Glasgow and Galloway

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Description of arms. Party per pale: dexter, vert, a fess wavy argent charged with a bar wavy azure between a representation of St Mungo issuant from the fess proper, habited or, his dexter hand raised in benediction and in his sinister hand a Celtic cross of the same in chief, in nombril point a salmon proper and in base an annulet of the fourth; sinister, argent a representation of St Ninian standing full-faced proper, clothed in a pontifical robe purpure, on his head a mitre and in his dexter hand a crosier or.

Glasgow and Galloway

550(?) Kentigern or Mungo (no record of his successors)

1114(?) (Michael)

1118(?) John

1147 Herbert

1164 Ingram

1175 Jocelin

1199 Hugh de Roxburgh (elect)

1200 William Malveisin

1202 Florence (elect)

1208 Walter de St Albans

1233 William de Bondington

1259 Nicholas de Moffat (elect)

1259 John de Cheam

1268 Nicholas de Moffat (elect)

1271 William Wischard (elect)

1273 Robert Wischard

1317 Stephen de Donydouer (elect)

1318 John de Eglescliffe

1323 John de Lindsay

1337 John Wischard

1339 William Rae

1367 Walter Wardlaw

1388 Matthew de Glendonwyn

1391 John Framisden (titular)

1408 William Lauder

1427 John Cameron

1447 James de Brois [Brewhouse]

1448 William Turnbull

1456 Andrew de Durrisdeer

1475 John Laing

1483 George Carmichael (elect)

ARCHBISHOPS

1483 Robert Blackadder (Archbishop 9 Jan 1492)

1509 James Betoun I

1525 Gavin Dunbar

1551 Alexander Gordon

1552 James Betoun II (restored 1587)

1571 John Porterfield (titular)

1573 James Boyd (titular)

1581 Robert Montgomery (titular)

1585 William Erskine (titular)

1610 John Spottiswoode

1615 James Law

1633 Patrick Lindsay

1661 Andrew Fairfoul

1664 Alexander Burnet (restored 1674)

1671 Robert Leighton, died 1684 (resigned 1674)

1679 Arthur Rose

1684 Alexander Cairncross, died 1701

1687 John Paterson,[1] died 1708

[1708 Vacant]

BISHOPS

1731 Alexander Duncan, died 1733

[1733 Vacant]

1787 Held with Edinburgh

1805 William Abernethy Drummond

1809–37 Held with Edinburgh

1837 Michael Russell

1848 Walter John Trower

1859 William Scott Wilson

1888 William Thomas Harrison

1904 Archibald Ean Campbell

1921 Edward Thomas Scott Reid

1931 John Russell Darbyshire

1938 John Charles Halland How

1952 Francis Hamilton Moncreiff

1974 Frederick Goldie

1981 Derek Alec Rawcliffe

1991 John Mitchell Taylor

1998 Idris Jones

2010 Gregor Duthrie Duncan

2020 Kevin Pearson

Galloway or Candida Casa or Whithorn[2]

   Ninian, died 432(?)

   (?)  Octa

 681 Trumwine

 731 Penthelm, died 735(?)

 735 Frithowald, died 764

 763 Pehtwine, died 776

 777 Ethelbert

 791 Beadwulf

1140 Gilla-Aldan

1154 Christian

1189 John

1214 Walter

1235 Odo Ydonc (elect)

1235 Gilbert

1255 Henry

1294 Thomas de Kircudbright [de Daltoun]

1327 Simon de Wedale

1355 Michael Malconhalgh

1359(?) Thomas Macdowell (elect)

1359 Thomas

1364 Adam de Lanark

   (?)  David Douglas, died 1373

   (?)  James Carron (resigned 1373)

1378 Ingram de Kethnis (elect)

1379 Oswald

1380 Thomas de Rossy

   (?)  Francis Ramsay, died 1402

1406 Elisaeus Adougan

1414(?) Gilbert Cavan (elect)

1415 Thomas de Butil

1422 Alexander Vaus

1451 Thomas Spens

1457(?) Thomas Vaus (elect)

1459 Ninian Spot

1482(?) George Vaus

1508(?) James Betoun (elect)

1509(?) David Arnot

1526 Henry Wemyss

1541(?) Andrew Dury

1559(?) Alexander Gordon

1610 Gavin Hamilton

1612(?) William Couper

1619 Andrew Lamb

1635 Thomas Sydserf

1661 James Hamilton

1675 John Paterson

1679 Arthur Rose

1680 James Aitken

1688 John Gordon, died 1726

1697 Held with Edinburgh

1837 Held with Glasgow