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Inverness Cathedral (Scottish Gaelic: Cathair-Eaglais Inbhir Nis), also known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew (1866–69), is a cathedral of the Scottish Episcopal Church situated in the city of Inverness in Scotland close to the banks of the River Ness.
Inverness Cathedral, dedicated to St Andrew, is a cathedral of the Scottish Episcopal Church and seat of the ordinary of the Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness. The cathedral has a curiously square-topped look to its spires, as funds ran out before they could be completed.
This is a list of cathedrals in Scotland.. A cathedral church is a Christian place of worship that is the chief, or 'mother' church of a diocese.The distinction of cathedral refers to that church being the location of the cathedra, the seat of the bishop.
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A succession of castles have stood on this site since 1057. [2] The castle is said to have been built by Malcolm III of Scotland (Máel Coluim mac Donnchada). The first chief of Clan Mackintosh, Shaw Macduff is said to have been appointed constable of Inverness Castle by Malcolm IV in 1163 after assisting the king in putting down a rebellion in Moray. [3]
Fortrose Cathedral was the episcopal seat (cathedra) of the medieval Scottish diocese of Ross in the Highland region of Scotland near the city of Inverness. It is probable that the original site of the diocese was at Rosemarkie, but by the 13th century the canons had relocated a short distance to the south-west, to the site known as Fortrose or Chanonry. [1]
Alexander Augustin Donald MacKenzie (19 February 1876 – 1 July 1969) was Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness from 1918 to 1949. [1]Mackenzie studied theology at Durham University on a scholarship, and was a member of Hatfield College there. [2]
He was born in Berwickshire [1] on 19 June 1848 [2] and educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond.. He then studied divinity at Christ Church, Oxford. [3] Ordained in 1876 he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Edinburgh Cathedral [4] after which he was Rector of Old St Paul's, Edinburgh [5] and then Christ Church, Glasgow before becoming Provost of Inverness Cathedral in 1911, a ...