William Dunbar, M.A. (6 October 1661 – 7 January 1746) was a Scottish Episcopal clergyman who served as the Bishop of Moray and Ross (1727–35) and

Bishop of Aberdeen The Bishop of Aberdeen (originally Bishop of Mortlach, in Latin Murthlacum) was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Aberdeen, one of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th-century cleric named Nec ...

(1733–1745). He was consecrated at

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as the

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of the

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s of Moray and Ross on 18 June 1727 by Arthur Millar,

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, with bishops Gadderar and Rattray serving as co-

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s. He also became the Bishop of the

Diocese of Aberdeen Diocese of Aberdeen was one of the 13 (14, after 1633) dioceses of the Scottish church, before the abolition of the episcopacy in 1689. Early history A see was founded in 1063 at Mortlach by Blessed Beyn. The earliest mention of the See of ...

on 5 June 1733, but retained Moray and Ross until 1735. He resigned the see of Aberdeen on 4 July 1745 and died on 7 January 1746, aged 84.

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