Roderick MacLean (bishop)

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

Roderick MacLean
Bishop of the Isles
DioceseDiocese of Sodor
In office1550–1553
PredecessorFerchar MacEachan
SuccessorThomas Stanley
Personal details
Died1553
NationalityScottish
DenominationRoman Catholic

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


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