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Robert Norrie, MA (c.1647–1727) was an
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clergyman who served in the Scottish Episcopal Church as the
Bishop of Brechin The Bishop of Brechin is the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Brechin or angus, Scotland, Angus, based at Dundee. Brechin Cathedral, Brechin is a parish church of the established (presbyterian) Church of Scotland. The diocese had a long-es ...
from 1724 to 1727.


Biography

He was
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the Bishop of the
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at Edinburgh on 25 July 1724 by Primus
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and bishops Millar,
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and Freebairn. He died in office in January 1727.


References

1647 births 1727 deaths Bishops of Brechin (Episcopalian) 18th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops {{UK-bishop-stub