// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy did Roderick MacLean go to church? He was a pious MacLean.
Appearance
Roderick MacLean | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of the Isles | |
| Diocese | Diocese of Sodor |
| In office | 5 March 1550 – 1553 |
| Predecessor | Ferchar MacEachan |
| Successor | Alexander Gordon |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 1553 |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Roderick MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Ruaidhri Mac Gill-Eathain; fl. 1549 - died 1553) was a 16th-century Scottish bishop of the Isles. He was appointed as bishop on 5 March 1550 and died in 1553.
In Rome, in 1549, he published a Latin translation of a large portion of Adomnan of Iona's 'Life of St Columba, which was a very obscure text at the time.[1]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Adomnan of Iona. Life of St Columba. ed. by Richard Sharpe, Penguin Books, 1995. A Macquarrie and R P H Green. The Poems of Roderick MacLean. Scottish History Society, 2022.