Roderick MacLean (Scots Gaelic:Ruaidhri Mac Gill-Eathain) was a 16th-century Scottish
bishop of the Isles. He was appointed as bishop on 5 March 1550 and died in 1553.
In Rome, in 1549, he published a Latin translation of a large portion of
Adomnan of Iona's 'Life of
St Columba
Columba or Colmcille; gd, Calum Cille; gv, Colum Keeilley; non, Kolban or at least partly reinterpreted as (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is toda ...
, which was a very obscure text at the time.
[Adomnan of Iona. Life of St Columba. ed. by Richard Sharpe, Penguin Books, 1995. A Macquarrie and R P H Green. The Poems of Roderick MacLean. Scottish History Society, 2022.]
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Bishops of the Isles
16th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops
1553 deaths
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