medieval-atlas/the-church/335

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The post-Viking church By the time of Malcolm III (1055-93) there were a number of territorial bishoprics in the Scottish church, and each bishop would have his own church with one or two clergy there. But the evidence for the existence of all except St Andrews is from the twelfth century or even later. There was a bishop in Strathearn, but we are not sure that his seat was at Dunblane. Similarly there was a bishop in Skye, but his seat at Snizort is uncertain. This bishop appears to have replaced earljer bishops associated with Iona; it is not known how he related to the bishop of Man, whose seat was possibly at Maughold on the £} Maughold Peel east coast, but from about 1000, perhaps, on St Patrick's Isle, Peel off the west coast. There is a gap in the known succession of bishops at Whithorn after the early ninth century until the 1220s. In addition to the bishops shown there may have been a bishop for Moray with a seat near Elgin. And finally the bishop at Chester-IeStreet (Durham from 995) who possessed the relics of St Cuthbert had not abandoned his claim to be pastor in Lothian and Tweeddale even though these djstricts had effectively passed to the bishops of St Andrews and Glasgow respectively. ~' Che\, le Street kms 0 I 25, 50,, 75, , 100 miles The post -Viking church: bishops' seats AAMD 335

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