Matthew (died 1199) was a 12th-century churchman residing in

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. He is the first man known to have held the position of Archdeacon of St Andrews, his first known ecclesiastical post. He occurs in this office in a document which can be dated to some point between August 1147 and June 1152. Bishop Edward,

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, died in 1172 and Archdeacon Matthew was elected as the successor. He was consecrated on 2 April 1172. Matthew was the principal

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in charge of the consecration of

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on 15 June 1180. Matthew maintained his links with

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, appearing in numerous charters relating to that province. He had a brother named Odo who was the ''

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'' ("steward") of Ernald,

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(1160–63). His family may have been the one that eventually took the locative surname "de Kininmund" (or variants). He died on 20 August 1199 and was succeeded by

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, the

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Dowden, John John Dowden /d͡ʒɒn ˈdaʊdən/ (29 June 1840 – 30 January 1910) was an Irish-born bishop and ecclesiastical historian. He served in the Scottish Episcopal Church as the Bishop of Edinburgh. Life He was born in Cork on 29 June 1840, ...

, ''The Bishops of Scotland'', ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912), pp. 99–100 * Innes, Cosmo, ''Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis: Ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis Regesta Que Extant in Unum Collecta'', Vol. 1, (Edinburgh, 1845), pp. xx-i * Keith, Robert, ''An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688'', (London, 1924), pp. 104–5 * Watt, D.E.R., ''Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638'', 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969), pp. 1, 304 {{DEFAULTSORT:Matthew 12th-century births 1199 deaths Bishops of Aberdeen Scoto-Normans 12th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops