Andrew Graham was Bishop of Dunblane

Bishop of Dunblane

The Bishop of Dunblane or Bishop of Strathearn was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Dunblane/Strathearn, one of medieval Scotland's thirteen bishoprics. It was based at Dunblane Cathedral, now a parish church of the Church of Scotland. The bishopric itself certainly derives from an older...

 between 1573 × 1575 and 1603. He received license for election after the deprivation of William Chisholm II

William Chisholm (d. 1593)

William Chisholm II , bishop of Dunblane and bishop of Vaison, was a son of Chisholm of Cromlix, and nephew to William Chisholm I, bishop of Dunblane from 1527 to 1564, to whom he was appointed coadjutor by a brief of Pope Pius IV dated 1 June 1561....

 on 3 July 1573, with crown confirmation and mandate for consecration on 17 May 1575. He was granted the temporalities

Temporalities

Temporalities are the secular properties and possessions of the Christian Church. It is most often used to describe those properties that were used to support a bishop or other religious person or establishment. Its opposite description would be the spiritualities.In the Middle Ages, the...

 of the bishopric on 28 July 1575. He resigned the see

Episcopal See

An episcopal see is, in the original sense, the official seat of a bishop. This seat, which is also referred to as the bishop's cathedra, is placed in the bishop's principal church, which is therefore called the bishop's cathedral...

 early in 1603, making way for his kinsman George Graham

George Graham (bishop)

George Graeme , Bishop of Dunblane and Bishop of Orkney, was a late sixteenth- and early seventeenth century Church of Scotland prelate. He was the younger son of George Graeme of Inchbrakie and Marion/Mary Rollo, daughter of Rollo of Duncrub...

. His episcopate fell in a time when the role of bishops had been reduced to little more than nominal function.