Alexander Gordon (archbishop)

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Alexander Gordon († 1575) was a 16th century archbishop of Glasgow, bishop of Sodor and overseer-bishop of Galloway. He was the brother of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, the ex-Chancellor of Scotland. He was provided and consecrated to the archdiocese of Glasgow in the year 1550. He resigned the see in 1551 to the pope, and was given a pension and the title archbishop of Athens in partibus. In 1553, he was translated to the bishopric of the Isles (Sodor) at Iona. In 1559, after the death of the bishop of Galloway, Alexander was translated that bishopric. Alexander became a Protestant, and died on November 11, 1575.

The DNB entry for John Gordon, dean of Salisbury states that this Alexander Gordon and his wife Barbara Logie were his parents. John is there stated to have been illegitimate, his parents married, perhaps clandestinely, only in 1546, before Alexander obtained ecclesiastical preferment.^{[citation needed]}

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• Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)

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Preceded by Gavin Dunbar	Archbishop of Glasgow 1550–1	Succeeded by James Beaton II
Preceded by Ruairidh MacGill-Eain	Bishop of the Isles 1553–9	Succeeded by John Campbell
Preceded by Andrew Durie	Bishop of Galloway 1559–1572	Succeeded by -