Donald Martin (bishop)

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Donald Martin (1873–1938) was a Scottish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles from 1919 to 1938.^[1]

Born in Salen on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, Scotland on 6 October 1873, he was ordained to the priesthood on 23 September 1905. He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles by the Holy See on 2 April 1919, and consecrated to the Episcopate on 11 June 1919. The principal consecrator was John Toner, Bishop of Dunkeld, and the principal co-consecrators were James William McCarthy, Bishop of Galloway and Henry Gray Graham, Auxiliary Bishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh.^[1]

He died in office on 6 December 1938, aged 65.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Bishop Donald Martin at Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved on 6 October 2010.

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Preceded by George John Smith	Bishop of Argyll and the Isles 1919–1938	Succeeded by Donald Alphonsus Campbell

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Name	Martin, Donald
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Date of birth	1873
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Date of death	1938
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