George Rigg 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 1878 to 1887.

Born in Groghmore, Scotland on 19 July 1814, he was ordained

Holy Orders

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 to the priesthood

Priesthood (Catholic Church)

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 on 25 July 1838. He was appointed the Bishop

Bishop (Catholic Church)

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 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 22 March 1878, and consecrated

Consecration

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 to the Episcopate

Episcopal polity

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 on 26 May 1878. The principal consecrator

Consecrator

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 was Cardinal Edward Henry Howard

Edward Henry Howard

Edward Henry Howard was an English Catholic priest and archbishop, who was made a cardinal in 1877.He was a relative of the Dukes of Norfolk.He was the son of Edward Charles Howard of Glossop, and received his primary education at Oscott...

, and the principal co-consecrators were Archbishop Walter Steins

Walter Steins

Walter Hermanus Jacobus Steins SJ was a Dutch Jesuit priest, Vicar Apostolic of Bombay, India , Vicar Apostolic of West Bengal and , third Catholic Bishop of Auckland ....

and Bishop Giovanni Jacovacci.

He died in office on 18 January 1887, aged 72.