Colin Grant was a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 clergyman who briefly served as the Roman Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen

Bishop of Aberdeen

The Bishop of Aberdeen was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Aberdeen, one of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th century cleric named Nechtan...

 in 1889.

Born in Glen Gairn on 3 February 1832, he was ordained

Holy Orders

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 a priest

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 on 22 December 1855. 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 Aberdeen

Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland.-Foundation:The see was founded in 1063 at Mortlach by Blessed Beyn. The earliest mention of the old See of Aberdeen is in the charter of the foundation, by the Earl of Buchan, of the...

 by the Holy See

Holy See

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 on 16 July 1889, and consecrated

Consecration

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 to the Episcopate

Episcopal polity

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 on 13 August 1889. The principal consecrator

Consecrator

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 was Archbishop William Smith

William Smith (archbishop)

William Smith was a Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland....

, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop John McLachlan

John McLachlan (bishop)

John McLachlan was a Scottish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Galloway from 1878 to 1893.Born in Glasgow, Scotland on 7 September 1826, he was ordained to the priesthood on 16 March 1850. He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Galloway by the Holy See on 22 March 1878,...

 and Bishop (later Archbishop) Angus MacDonald

Angus MacDonald (archbishop)

Angus MacDonald was a Roman Catholic bishop who served as the third Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh in Scotland from 1892 to 1900.-Early life:...

. He died in office on 26 September 1889, aged 57.