Alexander Gordon (d. 1575)
- Alexander Gordon (d. 1575)
Alexander Gordon (died 1575) was a 16th century archbishop of Glasgow, bishop of Sodor and bishop of Galloway. He was the brother of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, the ex-Chancellor of Scotland. He was provided and consecrated to the archdiocese of Glasgow in the year 1550. He resigned the see in 1551 to the pope, and was given a pension and the title archbishop of Athens "in partibus". In 1553, he was translated to the bishopric of the Isles ("Sodor") at Iona. In 1559, after the death of the bishop of Galloway, Alexander was translated that bishopric. Alexander became a Protestant, and died on November 11, 1575.
John Gordon, future Bishop of Galloway, was the son of Alexander Gordon and his wife Barbara Logie. John seems to have been illegitimate; his parents married, perhaps clandestinely, only in 1546, before Alexander obtained ecclesiastical preferment. [cite book| title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography| publisher=Oxford University Press| year=2004| url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11061/11061| accessdate=2007-05-01]
References
*Dowden, John, "The Bishops of Scotland", ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
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