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Alexander Gordon (bishop of Aberdeen)

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Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis: Ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis Regesta Que Extant in Unum Collecta
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had provided Robert Forman, dean of Glasgow, to the vacant see, while at the same time the
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He died on 30 June 1518. It is possible that he eventually received the ritual of
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of Aberdeen prepared to elect a successor. According to later tradition,
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An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688
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From 1507 until he became Bishop of Aberdeen in 1514 he was the
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From at least 1504, probably earlier, until 1516, he was
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Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638
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Index

Scottish
Earl of Huntly
Laird
Haddo
Precentor
chanter
diocese of Moray
Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland
William Elphinstone
canons
Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly
Pope Leo X
Duke of Albany
James Ogilvie
Abbot of Dryburgh
Andrew Forman
Archbishop of St Andrews
consecration




John Spottiswoode
Dowden, John
Innes, Cosmo
Watt, D.E.R.
William Elphinstone
Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland
David, Abbot of Arbroath
Precentor

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