Roderick MacLean (bishop)

Roderick MacLean
Bishop of the Isles
Diocese Diocese of Sodor
In office 1550–1553
Predecessor Ferchar MacEachan
Successor Thomas Stanley
Personal details
Died 1553
Nationality Scottish
Denomination Roman Catholic

Roderick MacLean (Scots Gaelic:Ruaidhri Mac Gill-Eathain)was a 16th-century Scottish bishop of the Isles.He was appointed as bishop on March 5th 1550 and died in 1553.

In Rome, in 1549, he published a Latin translation of a large portion of Adomnan of Iona's 'Life of St Columba, which was a very obscure text at the time. [1]

Notes

  1. Adomnan of Iona. Life of St Columba. ed. by Richard Sharpe, Penguin Books, 1995


Religious titles
Preceded by
Ferchar MacEachan
Bishop of the Isles
1550–1553
Succeeded by
Alexander Gordon


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