The Archdeacon of Galloway was the only

archdeacon An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o ...

in the medieval

Diocese of Galloway The Diocese of Galloway was one of the thirteen (after 1633 fourteen) dioceses of the pre-1689 Scottish Church. The Diocese was led by the Bishop of Galloway and was centred on Whithorn Cathedral. In the Middle Ages, there was only one archd ...

(Whithorn), acting as a deputy of the

Bishop of Galloway The Bishop of Galloway, also called the Bishop of Whithorn, was the eccesiastical head of the Diocese of Galloway, said to have been founded by Saint Ninian in the mid-5th century. The subsequent Anglo-Saxon bishopric was founded in the late 7th ...

. The following is a list of archdeacons:

List of archdeacons of Galloway

* Robert, fl. 1154 x 1186 * John, fl. 1186 x 1222 * Michael, fl. 1235 x 1253 * Geoffrey, 1254-1294 * John Nepos, 1294-1294 * Gilbert de Galloway (Galwidia), fl. 1320 x 1321 * Patrick Macdowell, x 1331-1360 * Stephen de Makerstoun (Malcarston), fl. x 1367. * Duncan Petit, fl. 1363 * Richard Smerles fl. x 1391. *

Thomas de Buittle Thomas de Buittle ''Butil, Butill, Butyll, Butyl, Bucyl(died c. 1420–1422) was a Scottish prelate, clerk and papal auditor active in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. Probably originating in Galloway, Scotland, Thomas took a universi ...

, 1391 - 1415. *

Gilbert Cavan Gilbert Cavan (died 1420) was a cleric based primarily in Galloway in the early 15th century, a servant of the earls of Douglas and briefly Bishop of Galloway-elect. His name is also written Caven, Cawan, Caben, with other variants, perhaps repr ...

, 1415-1415 x 1417. * John Gray, 1415 x 1417-1425 * Patrick Young, 1423-1471 ** David de Hamilton, 1425 ** John Betoun, 1427-1428 ** John Benyng, 1430 ** Thomas Spens, x 1450 * John Otterburn, 1471-1478 * George Brown, 1477-1478 * Andrew Stewart, 1502-1507 * Walter Betoun, 1507 * Thomas Nudry, 1509-1510 x 1512. * Alexander Shaw, 1512-1513 *

Henry Wemyss Henry Wemyss (died 1541) was a prelate from the 16th century Kingdom of Scotland. He appears in the sources in the bishopric of Galloway for the first time in 1517, and rose to become Bishop of Galloway in 1526, a position he held until his deat ...

, 1513 x 1522-1531 * Patrick Arnot, 1529-1543 ** Thomas Hay, 1531 * Lyon Brown, 1576-1577 * James Adamson, 1614-1637

Bibliography

* Watt, D.E.R., ''Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638'', 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969), pp. 136-8

List of archdeacons of Galloway

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See also