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Gregory of Brechin

Bishop of Brechin

Field	Value
type	Bishop
name	Gregory
Gregoir
title	Bishop of Brechin
image	Brechin, Cathedral and Round Tower.jpg
caption	Brechin Cathedral with "Irish" round tower
see	Brechin
term	1218–1242x1246
predecessor	Hugh
successor	Albin
birth_date	12th century
birth_place	unknown
death_date	1242 x 1246
death_place	unknown
previous_post	Archdeacon of Brechin

Gregoir

Gregory of Brechin (died 1242x1246) was a 13th-century prelate based in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Gregory's name appears for the first time in an Arbroath Abbey document dating between 1189 and 1198, when he is holding the office of Archdeacon of Brechin. He is the first known archdeacon in the diocese of Brechin.

Gregory is found as a papal judge-delegate in 1219, 1224 and 1225. He was present at the royal council in Forfar in 1225, and at Dundee in 1230. He appears in another Arbroath document dating to 1242, his last appearance in contemporary sources.

During Gregory's time the cathedral was run by Scottish priests called Céli Dé, governed until at least the early part of Gregory's episcopate by a prior named Máel Brigte (Mac Léoit, "MacLoud"). The old abbots of Brechin were in the process of becoming the secular Mac in Aba (filius Abbe, "MacNab") lords of Glen Esk. Soon after Gregory's death these priests "by change of name" came to be "styled as canons". Gregory may have been responsible for this nominal change.

Gregory died sometime between his last appearance in 1242, and 1246 when the papacy mandated the confirmation of his successor Albin.

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References

|- before=Hugh | title=Bishop of Brechin | years= 1218–1242x1246 | after=Albin

References

Watt, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', p. 72
Following the death of [[Hugh of Brechin
Dowden, ''Bishops'', p. 175
Dowden, ''Bishops'', p. 175; Watt, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', p. 53
Barrow, "The Lost Gàidhealtachd", p. 112
Barrow, "The Lost Gàidhealtachd", p. 113
Cowan and Easson, ''Medieval Religious Houses'', p. 47
Watt, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', p. 57
Watt, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', p. 53

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