Donald Martin was a Scottish

Scotland

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 Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles

Bishop of Argyll and the Isles (Catholic)

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 from 1919 to 1938.

Born in Salen on the Ardnamurchan

Ardnamurchan

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 peninsula, Scotland on 6 October 1873, he was ordained

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 to the priesthood

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 on 23 September 1905. He was appointed the Bishop

Bishop (Catholic Church)

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 of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles

Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, in the Province of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh....

 by the Holy See

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 on 2 April 1919, and consecrated

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 to the Episcopate

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 on 11 June 1919. The principal consecrator

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 was John Toner

John Toner (bishop)

John Toner was a Scottish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Dunkeld from 1914 to 1949.Born in Glasgow, Scotland on 14 March 1857, he was ordained to the priesthood on 25 March 1882. He was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Dunkeld by the Holy See on 8 September 1914, and...

, Bishop of Dunkeld, and the principal co-consecrators were James William McCarthy

James William McCarthy (bishop)

James William McCarthy was a Roman Catholic clergyman who served as Bishop of Galloway in Scotland from 1914 to 1943.Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England on 30 January 1853, he was ordained to the priesthood in Glasgow on 4 May 1879. He was appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Galloway by the...

, Bishop of Galloway and Henry Gray Graham, Auxiliary Bishop

Auxiliary bishop

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 of St Andrews and Edinburgh.

He died in office on 6 December 1938, aged 65.