Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney

See also: Diocese of Aberdeen

Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney
Location
Ecclesiastical province	Scotland
Subdivisions	Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Chaplaincies, The Isles
Statistics
Congregations	47
Information
Cathedral	St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen
Current leadership
Bishop	Robert Gillies, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney
Website
aberdeen.anglican.org

The Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney is one of the seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church. In mainland Scotland, the diocese covers the City of Aberdeen and most of Aberdeenshire (the part of Aberdeenshire south of Aberdeen is in the Diocese of Brechin, and some parts of northwest Aberdeenshire are in the Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness). In addition to the mainland portion of the diocese, the Orkney and Shetland island groups also come under its jurisdiction. It shares with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen a Christian heritage that can be traced back to the twelfth century. It also incorporates the ancient Diocese of Orkney, founded in 1035.

The diocese has a strong companion link with the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut and the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Samuel Seabury, the first Episcopal bishop outside of the British Isles, was consecrated in 1784 by Robert Kilgour, Bishop of Aberdeen, and John Skinner, coadjutor bishop. Clarence Coleridge, suffragan bishop of Connecticut, was consecrated by a bishop of Aberdeen in 1981. Coleridge was elected 13th diocesan bishop of Connecticut in 1993.

The current Bishop, Dr Robert (Bob) Gillies, was consecrated in Winter 2007, and the current Dean, Canon Dr Emsley Nimmo, was licensed on 20 April 2008, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen.

List of bishops

Below is a list of modern, non-papal bishops of the united diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney. The earliest bishops of these dioceses as well did not recognize the later doctrine of papal de facto jurisdiction in non-Roman dioceses, much less the modern doctrine of papal infallibility.

For bishops of the separate dioceses, see Bishop of Aberdeen and Bishop of Orkney.

Bishops of Aberdeen and Orkney
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1865	1883	Thomas Suther	Died in office.
1883	1905	Arthur Douglas	Died in office.
1906	1911	Rowland Ellis	Died in office.
1912	1917	Anthony Mitchell	Died in office.
1917	1943	Frederic Deane
1943	1955	Herbert Hall	Died in office.
1956	1972	Frederick Easson
1973	1977	Ian Begg
1978	1992	Frederick Darwent
1992	2006	Bruce Cameron	Elected Primus in 2001.
2007	present	Robert Gillies (born 1951)

Churches

Aberdeen City

St. Andrew's Cathedral St Clement's St Devenick's St James'

St John's St Machar's St Margaret's St Mary's (Aberdeen)

St Mary's (Cove Bay) St Ninian's St Peter's (Torry)

Aberdeenshire

All Saints' (Buckie) All Saints' (Fyvie) All Saints' (Strichen) All Saints (Whiterashes) Chapel of Ninian (Braemar) Christchurch (Kincardine O'Neil) St Andrew's (Alford) St Andrew's (Banff) St Anne's (Kemnay)

St Congan's (Turriff) St Drostan's (Insch) St Drostan's (Old Deer) St James the Less (Cruden Bay) St John the Baptist (Portsoy) St John the Evangelist (New Pitsligo) St John's (Longside) St Kentigern's (Ballater) St Luke's (Cuminestown)

St Mary-on-the-Rock (Ellon) St Mary's, Auchindoir St Mary's (Inverurie) St Matthew's and St George's (Oldmeldrum) St Peter's (Fraserburgh) St Peter's (Peterhead) St Ternan's (Banchory) St Thomas's (Aboyne) Trinity (Westhill)

Islands

Chapel of Christ the Encompasser (Fetlar, Shetland) St Olaf (Kirkwall, Orkney)

St Magnus' (Lerwick, Shetland) St Mary's (Stromness, Orkney) St Colman's (Burravoe, Shetland)

See also

• Bishop of Aberdeen (Pre- and Post-Reformation)

References