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•  Bishop of Caithness

  The Bishop of Caithness was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Caithness, one of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics. The first referenced bishop of Caithness was Aindréas, a Gael who appears in sources between 1146 and 1151 as bishop. Aindréas spent much if not all of his career outside his see. Other bishops before Aindréas are possible, but none is documented. King David I of Scotland, is credited with founding many bishoprics, and it is possible that Caithness was one of them.

  

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•  Aindréas of Caithness

  Andreas or Aindréas of Caithness († 1184) is the first known bishop of Caithness and a source for the author of de Situ Albanie. Aindréas was a native Scot, and very likely came from a prominent family in Gowrie, or somewhere in this part of Scotland. He was a prominent landowner in Gowrie, Angus and Fife, and it is likely that he was a brother of one Eòghan "of Monorgan", another Gowrie landlord.

  

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•  John of Caithness

  John of Caithness is the second known bishop of Caithness, based then at Halkirk. He witnesses various charters in Scotland between the years 1187 and 1199. Bishop John is best known for his mutilation, carried out at Scrabster Castle by Harald Maddadsson, in which the bishop lost his tongue and eyes. The bishop suffered this fate by refusing to collect Peter's Pence, a tax of 1/10th of the income of every freeman.

  

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•  Adam of Melrose

  Adam of Melrose (d.1222) was Abbot of Melrose and Bishop of Caithness, famously burned to death by the husbandmen of Caithness. He rose to the position of Abbot in 1207, and on 5 August 1213, was elected to the bishopric of Caithness, then based at Halkirk. On 11 May 1214, he was consecrated by William de Malveisin, Bishop of St. Andrews, with Walter, Bishop of Glasgow, and Bricius, Bishop of Moray assisting.

  

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•  Gilbert de Moravia

  Gilbert de Moravia (died 1245), later known as Saint Gilbert of Dornoch, was the most famous Bishop of Caithness and founder of Dornoch Cathedral. His name may suggest that he came from the semi-Gaelicized family of Flemish origin who were Lords of Duffus, and who during Gilbert's episcopate would create the Earldom of Sutherland under Gilbert's possible cousin, William de Moravia, 1st Earl of Sutherland.

  

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•  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.

  

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•  George Gledstanes

  George Gledstanes or Gladstanes (c. 1562-1615) was an Archbishop of St Andrews during the seventeenth century.

  

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•  Andrew Stewart (d. 1541)

  Andrew Stewart (died 1541) was a 16th century Scottish noble and cleric. He was the legitimate son of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl and Eleanor Sinclair, daughter of William Sinclair, Earl of Orkney. His paternal grandmother was Joan Beaufort, former queen-consort of Scotland. Andrew chose an ecclesiastical career, held a canonry in Dunkeld Cathedral and was rector of Blair parish church, a church under the control of the earls of Atholl.

  

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•  Alan de St Edmund

  Alan de St Edmund was a 13th-century English cleric and administrator of the Roman Catholic Church. His name suggests a connection with Bury St. Edmunds Abbey in Suffolk, but there is no direct evidence. He was the chaplain of Hugh of Evesham, another Englishman, from the diocese of Worcester, who in 1282 was made Presbyter-Cardinal of St Laurence in Lucina by Pope Martin IV.

  

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•  Walter de Baltrodin

  Walter de Baltrodin [Baltroddi; Baltroddie] (died 1270) was a 13th century Scottish bishop; if his name can be taken as a guide, he came from "Baltrodin" - Baltroddie - in Gowrie. Although it is not known which university or universities he attended, he had achieved a Master's Degree by 1259 and was later a Doctor of Canon Law. He held canonries in the dioceses of Aberdeen and Caithness when, in 1263, he was elected Bishop of Caithness.

  

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•  Folk science

  Folk science describes ways of understanding and predicting the natural and social world, without the use of rigorous methodologies. One could label all understanding of nature predating the Greeks as "folk science". Folk science is often accepted as "common wisdom" in a given culture, and gets passed on as memes. According to some evolutionary psychologists, it may also reflect the output of evolved cognitive processes of the human mind which have been adapted in the course of human evolution.

  

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•  WAGA (TV)

  

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•  The Third Bardo

  The Third Bardo were an American psychedelic rock band from New York led by singer Jeff Monn. The group existed for a brief time in the late 1960s. In 1967 they released their only single, "I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time. " This song received some radio exposure, but only years later was recognized as a 1960s rock classic due to its inclusion in compilations such as the critically acclaimed Box Set.

  

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•  The Shack (journalism)

  

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