Angus MacFarlane was a Scottish

Scotland

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 Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Dunkeld

Bishop of Dunkeld

The Bishop of Dunkeld is the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Dunkeld, one of the largest and more important of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th century cleric named Cormac...

 from 1901 to 1912.

Born in Spean Bridge

Spean Bridge

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, Lochaber

Lochaber

District of Lochaber 1975 to 1996Highland council area shown as one of the council areas of ScotlandLochaber is one of the 16 ward management areas of the Highland Council of Scotland and one of eight former local government districts of the two-tier Highland region...

, Scotland on 10 January 1843, he was ordained

Holy Orders

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 to the priesthood

Priesthood (Catholic Church)

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 on 26 April 1868. He was appointed the Bishop

Bishop (Catholic Church)

In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

 of the Diocese of Dunkeld

Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunkeld

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunkeld is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in Scotland, forming an episcopal hierarchy distinct from that of England and Wales....

  by the Holy See

Holy See

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 on 21 February 1901, and consecrated

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 to the Episcopate

Episcopal polity

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 on 1 May 1901. The principal consecrator

Consecrator

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 was Archbishop James August Smith

James August Smith

James August Smith was a Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh in Scotland from 1900 to 1928....

 of St Andrews and Edinburgh, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop William Turner

William Turner (Bishop of Galloway)

William Turner was a Scottish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Galloway from 1893 to 1914.Born in Aberdeen, Scotland on 12 December 1844, he was ordained to the priesthood on 26 April 1868. He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Galloway by the Holy See on 16 June 1893,...

 of Galloway and Archbishop John Aloysius Maguire

John Aloysius Maguire

John Aloysius Maguire was a Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Archbishop of Glasgow from 1902 to 1920.Born in Glasgow on 8 September 1851, he was ordained to the priesthood on 27 March 1875. He was appointed an Auxiliary Bishop of Glasgow and Titular Bishop of Trocmades by the Holy See on...

of Glasgow.

He died in office on 24 September 1912, aged 69.