James Hepburn (bishop)

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Andrew Stewart
Denomination Roman Catholic Church
Senior posting
See Diocese of Moray
Title Bishop of Moray
Period in office 1516–1524
Consecration 1516
Predecessor Andrew Forman
Successor Robert Shaw
Personal
Date of birth Probably late 1400s
Place of birth Probably Whitsome, Berwickshire
Date of death Early November, 1524
Place of death Moray

James Hepburn (d. 1524) was a Scottish prelate and administrator. He was the son of Alexander Hepburn of Whitsome.[1] His name occurs as the rector of Dalry and king's clerk on August 1, 1511.[2] Hepburn was Treasurer of Scotland between from at least June, 1515, until October the following year.[3] He also held the position of rector of Parton in the diocese of Galloway.[2]

He was elected Bishop of Moray sometime before February 12, 1516, on the nomination of the Governor of Scotland, John Stewart, Duke of Albany, following the translation of Bishop Andrew Forman to the Archbishopric of St Andrews.[4]

Hepburn had been granted the temporalities of the see by August 28.[4] With his provision by Pope Leo X on May 14, 1516, he received a Bull exempting him from the metropolitan and legatine jurisdiction of the Archbishop of St Andrews.[5] Although Archbishop Forman (d. 1521) had consented to this, his successor James Beaton resented it, and wrote to a senior Cardinal as a part of a wider attempt to have this reversed.[5]

Among other activities as during his short episcopate, Hepburn instituted the church of Duffus as a new rectory.[5] He died shortly before November 11, 1524.[4]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 167; Robert Keith mistakenly wrote that his father was Adam Lord Hailes.
  2. ^ a b Dowden, Bishops, p. 167.
  3. ^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 167, n. 2.
  4. ^ a b c Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 216.
  5. ^ a b c Dowden, Bishops, p. 168.

[edit] References

  • Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
  • Keith, Robert, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688, (London, 1924)
  • Watt, D.E.R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
Religious titles
Preceded by
Andrew Forman		 Bishop of Moray
1516–1524		 Succeeded by
Robert Shaw
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Bishops of Moray

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