Andrew Wood (c.1617– 1695) was a Scottish minister who served as Protestant Bishop of Caithness.

Life

The son of Rev David Wood,

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minister for the parish of

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, by a daughter of John Guthrie, Bishop of Moray, he followed his father's career in the ministry. He studied at

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graduating MA in 1634.''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae''; vol.1 by Hew Scott He became minister at Spott in 1643 under the patronage of William the

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and in February 1665 he translated to

Dunbar Dunbar () is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately east of Edinburgh and from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Dunbar is a former royal burgh, and gave its name to an ecc ...

, both in East Lothian. In May 1675 he was made

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in 1680 became Bishop of Caithness. He received dispensation from the king to hold this bishopric while retaining Dunbar. He held the position of Bishop of Caithness until the

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of 1688, when

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was abolished in Scotland and all Church of Scotland bishops lost their sees. He died in Dunbar in 1695, aged 76.

References

* , pp. 218, 310 {{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Andrew 17th-century births 1695 deaths Bishops of Caithness Bishops of the Isles Clergy from East Lothian Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1678 Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1681–1682 Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1685–1686 Scottish Restoration bishops