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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
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 ...
and was centred on
Whithorn Cathedral.
In the Middle Ages, there was only one archdeacon, the
Archdeacon of Galloway
The Archdeacon of Galloway was the only archdeacon in the medieval Diocese of Galloway (Whithorn), acting as a deputy of the Bishop of Galloway. The following is a list of archdeacons:
List of archdeacons of Galloway
* Robert, fl. 1154 x 1186
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. There are three known deaneries, the deaneries of
Desnes (
Kirkcudbright
Kirkcudbright ( ; sco, Kirkcoubrie; gd, Cille Chùithbeirt) is a town, parish and a Royal Burgh from 1455 in Kirkcudbrightshire, of which it is traditionally the county town, within Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
The town lies southwest of C ...
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Farines
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Wigtown
Wigtown ( (both used locally); gd, Baile na h-Ùige) is a town and former royal burgh in Wigtownshire, of which it is the county town, within the Dumfries and Galloway region in Scotland. It lies east of Stranraer and south of Newton Stewart. I ...
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Rhinns
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. The deaneries of Farines and Rhinns had been combined by the 16th century.
List of bishops
* See
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 ...
List of archdeacons
* See
Archdeacon of Galloway
The Archdeacon of Galloway was the only archdeacon in the medieval Diocese of Galloway (Whithorn), acting as a deputy of the Bishop of Galloway. The following is a list of archdeacons:
List of archdeacons of Galloway
* Robert, fl. 1154 x 1186
* ...
List of cathedral priors
* See
Prior of Whithorn
List of known rural deans
Early known rural deans
* Mac Bethad or Máel Bethad, fl. 1165 x 1174
* James, 1185 x 1197
List of known deans of Desnes
* Matthew, 1200 x 1209-1209 x 1222
[Dean of Desnes.]
* Thomas, fl. 1250
* John Wallace, fl. 1331
* Herbert Dunn, fl. 1529.
List of known deans of Farines
* William, fl. 1200 x 1209
* S.
.. fl. 1254-1257
List of known deans of Rhinns
* Gilbert, fl. 1200 x 1209
List of known deans of Farines and Rhinns
* John MacCraken, fl. 1538-1552
* Michael Hawthorn, fl. 1559
List of civil parishes
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Anwoth
Anwoth is a settlement near the Solway Firth in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire, southwest Scotland, within a parish of the same name in the Vale of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway. Anwoth lies a mile (1.5 km) to the west of Gatehous ...
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Balmaclellan
Balmaclellan ( Scottish Gaelic: ''Baile MhicIllFhaolain'', meaning town of the MacLellans) is a small hillside village of stone houses with slate roofs in a fold of the Galloway hills in south-west Scotland. To the west, across the Ken River, ...
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Balmaghie
Balmaghie ( ), from the Scottish Gaelic language, Scottish Gaelic ''Baile Mhic Aoidh'', is an ecclesiastical and civil parish in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland and was the seat of the McGhee Tartan, ...
# Balnacross
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Borgue
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Buittle
Buittle is an ecclesiastical and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland, in the traditional county of Kirkcudbrightshire. It lies to the west of the Urr Water, between Dalbeattie and Castle Douglas, and extends from Haugh of ...
# Clayshant
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Colmonell
Colmonell (Scottish Gaelic language, Scottish Gaelic: ''Cill Cholmain Eala)'' (meaning the church of St. Colman of Lainn Eala - in Lynally, County County Offaly, Offaly, Republic of Ireland, Ireland.) is a small village and Civil parishes in Scot ...
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Colvend
Colvend and Southwick is a community council area and civil parish within the Stewartry area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is also part of the Church of Scotland parish of Colvend, Southwick and Kirkbean. It is in the historic county ...
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Crossmichael
Crossmichael ( gd, Crois Mhìcheil) is a small village on the east side of Loch Ken in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire, about north of Castle Douglas in Scotland.
Crossmichael is also the name of the civil parish in Kirkcudbright ...
# Cruggleton
# Dalry
# Dunrod
# Galtway
# Gelston
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Glasserton
Glasserton is a civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is on the Machars peninsula, in the traditional county of Wigtownshire. The parish is about in length, varying in breadth from , and contains .
The Parish
It is th ...
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Glenluce
Glenluce ( gd, Clachan Ghlinn Lus) is a small village in the parish of Old Luce in Wigtownshire, Scotland.
It contains a village shop,a caravan park and a town hall, as well as the parish church.
Location
Glenluce on the A75 road between Stranr ...
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Inch
Measuring tape with inches
The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to yard or of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia ("twelfth") ...
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Kells
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Kirkandrews
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Kirkbean
Kirkbean ( gd, Cille Bheathain) is a Scottish village and civil parish on the Solway Firth, in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire and council area of Dumfries and Galloway. In the 2001 census, the four small villages making up the parish ...
# Kirkbride aka Blaiket
# Kirkchrist
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Kirkcolm
Kirkcolm ( sco, Kirkcoam) is a village and civil parish on the northern tip of the Rhinns of Galloway peninsula, south-west Scotland. It is in Dumfries and Galloway, and is part of the former county of Wigtownshire. The parish is bounded on the ...
# Kirkcormack
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Kirkcowan
Kirkcowan is an area about 15 miles in length, and from nearly two to nearly seven miles in breadth, comprising 30,580 acres, of which 7000 are arable, 300 woodland and plantations, and the remainder meadow, pasture in Machars, in the historical ...
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Kirkcudbright
Kirkcudbright ( ; sco, Kirkcoubrie; gd, Cille Chùithbeirt) is a town, parish and a Royal Burgh from 1455 in Kirkcudbrightshire, of which it is traditionally the county town, within Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
The town lies southwest of C ...
# Kirkdale
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Kirkgunzeon
Kirkgunȝeon ( gd, Cill Fhionnain) is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland. The village is south west of Dumfries and north east of Dalbeattie. The civil parish is in the former county of Kirkcudbrightshire ...
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Kirkinner
Kirkinner ( gd, Cille Chainneir, IPA: kʰʲiʎəˈxaɲɪɾʲ is a village in the Machars, in the historical county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. About southwest of Wigtown, it is bounded on the east by the bay of Wigtown ...
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Kirkmabreck
Kirkmabreck is a civil parish in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in the Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
Situated in the historic Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, and centred on the small town of Creetown on the east bank of th ...
# Kirkmadrine
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Kirkmaiden
Kirkmaiden is a parish in the Rhins of Galloway, the most southerly in Scotland; the present Church of Scotland parish has the same name as and is approximately coterminous with the original pre-Reformation parish.
The parish takes its name fro ...
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Kirkpatrick Durham
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Leswalt
Leswalt ( gd, Lios Uillt) is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It lies between Portpatrick and Stranraer in the Rhins of Galloway, part of the traditional county of Wigtownshire. The parish covers around ...
# Lochrutton
# Longcastle
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Minigaff
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Mochrum
Mochrum () is a coastal civil and Church of Scotland parish situated to the east of Luce Bay on the Machars peninsula and southwest of Wigtown and in the historical county of Wigtownshire in Galloway, Scotland. It covers and is approximately ...
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New Abbey
New Abbey ( gd, An Abaid Ùr) is a village in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is south of Dumfries. The summit of the prominent hill Criffel is to the south.
History
The village has a wealt ...
aka Kinderloch
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Parton
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Penninghame
Penninghame in Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, is a civil parish area, 8 miles (N. W.) from Wigtown. The area is approx 16 miles in length, and from 5 to 6 miles' width, bounded on the north and east by the River Cree, and on the ...
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Portpatrick
Portpatrick is a village and civil parish in the historical county of Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located on the west coast of the Rhins of Galloway. The parish is about in length and in breadth, covering .
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# Rerrick
# Senwick
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Sorbie
Sorbie ( gd, Soirbidh) is a small village in Wigtownshire, Machars, within the Administration area of Dumfries and Galloway Council, Scotland.
It is located midway between Wigtown and Whithorn on the A714 road.
Farming forms the principal loc ...
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Southwick
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Stoneykirk
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Terregles
Terregles () is a village and civil parish near Dumfries, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It lies in the former county of Kirkcudbrightshire.
The name Terregles, recorded as ''Travereglis'' in 1359, is from Cumbric ''*trev-ïr-eglẹ:s''. ...
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Tongland
Tongland is a small village about north of Kirkcudbright, in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It lies on the west bank of the Dee near its confluence with the Tarff Water.
History
Tonglan ...
# Toskerton
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Troqueer
Troqueer is a former village and a parish in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway on the west side of the River Nith.
The eastern-side was merged with Dumfries to the east in 1929, and today eastern Troqueer is a sub ...
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Twynholm
Twynholm ( 'TWINE-um') is a village in Scotland. It is located north-northwest of Kirkcudbright and east of Gatehouse of Fleet on the main A75 trunk road. It is in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire , Dumfries and Galloway.
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Urr
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Whithorn
Whithorn ( ʍɪthorn 'HWIT-horn'; ''Taigh Mhàrtainn'' in Gaelic), is a royal burgh in the historic county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, about south of Wigtown. The town was the location of the first recorded Christian ...
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Cathedral
A cathedral is a church that contains the '' cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denomination ...
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Wigtown
Wigtown ( (both used locally); gd, Baile na h-Ùige) is a town and former royal burgh in Wigtownshire, of which it is the county town, within the Dumfries and Galloway region in Scotland. It lies east of Stranraer and south of Newton Stewart. I ...
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Bibliography
* Watt, D.E.R., ''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638'', 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969), pp. 138–9
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Galloway
Galloway ( ; sco, Gallowa; la, Gallovidia) is a region in southwestern Scotland comprising the historic counties of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire. It is administered as part of the council area of Dumfries and Galloway.
A native or i ...
Christianity in Dumfries and Galloway
1128 establishments in Scotland
1689 disestablishments in Scotland