Diocese of Brechin (Episcopalian)

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Brechin 

Province	Scotland
Bishop	Bishop of Brechin
Cathedral	St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee
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Diocesan website

This article is on the diocese of the Scottish Episcopal Church; for the mediaeval diocese, see Diocese of Brechin.

The Diocese of Brechin is in the east of Scotland, and is the smallest of the seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church. It covers the City of Dundee, Angus and southern Aberdeenshire. It stretches from Muchalls in the north east down to Dundee in the south, and across to Glencarse in the south west. The Cathedral and administrative centre is St Paul’s Cathedral in Dundee. The diocese continues to be named after its mediaeval centre of Brechin.

The diocese is thought to have been founded in 1153 by Bishop Samson. The diocese had a continuous line of bishops until the Reformation, when Donald Campbell (1557) and John Sinclair (1565) were elected Bishops of Brechin, but not consecrated. In 1566, Alexander Campbell received was appointed as titular bishop. The line continued in proper form among Episcopalians with Andrew Lamb in 1610. From 1695 until 1709, the diocese was united with the Diocese of Edinburgh, with the latter's bishop, Alexander Rose, being also Bishop of Brechin. The line of independent bishops of Brechin restarted with John Falconar in 1709, and has continued to the present day. The current Bishop of Brechin is the Right Reverend Dr John Mantle, who was consecrated bishop in October 2005.

The Diocese of Brechin is twinned with the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa (Iowa, USA) and with the diocese of Swaziland.

Dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church
Aberdeen and Orkney | St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane | Argyll and the Isles | Brechin | Edinburgh | Glasgow and Galloway | Moray, Ross and Caithness See also: Scottish Episcopal Church | Primus