Cormac of Mortlach is the third Bishop of Mortlach,

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, according to the list of the ''Aberdeen Registrum''. He is known only by name. Skene tried to identify him with Bishop

Cormac of Dunkeld Cormac, Bishop of Dunkeld (fl. x1114-1131x) is the earliest recorded Bishop of Dunkeld in the 12th century, although he was not the first bishop of Dunkeld. It is possible, that he was the first bishop of Dunkeld distinct from the abbot, but there ...

, but this argument rests purely on the similarity of an extremely common name. Cormac's successor Nechtan was bishop by at least 1131, when he appears in a charter recorded in the Gaelic ''notitiae'' on the margins of the ''

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''.See Kenneth H. Jackson (ed), ''The Gaelic Notes in the Book of Deer: The Osborn Bergin Memorial Lecture, 1970'', (Cambridge, 1972), pp. 31, 34, 60; see also

Nechtan of Aberdeen Nechtan of Aberdeen is the first Bishop of Aberdeen after the seat of the bishopric had been moved to Aberdeen from Mortlach. The only contemporary sources for Bishop Nechtan are charters; he appears as "Nectan escob Abberdeon" in a Gaelic cha ...

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* Jackson, Kenneth H. (ed.), ''The Gaelic Notes in the Book of Deer: The Osborn Bergin Memorial Lecture 1970'', (Cambridge, 1972), * Innes, Cosmo, ''Registrum episcopatus Aberdonensis : ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis regesta que extant in unum collecta'', 2 Vols, (Spalding and Maitland Clubs, 1845), Vol. ii * Skene, William Forbes, ''Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban'', 2nd ed., (Edinburgh, 1887), vol. ii {{Bishops of Aberdeen 11th-century births Medieval Gaels from Scotland 12th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops 12th-century deaths