Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caithness
| Andrew Stewart | |
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| Bishop of Caithness | |
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| See | Diocese of Caithness |
| In office | 1517–1541 |
| Predecessor | Andrew Stewart |
| Successor | Alexander Gordon |
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| Consecration | 14 December 1517 (papal provision) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15th century Probably Atholl |
| Died | Dornoch, 1541 |
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Bishop of Dunkeld (elect: 1515–1516) Rector of Blair |
Andrew Stewart (died 1541) was a 16th-century Scottish noble and cleric. He was the legitimate son of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl and Eleanor Sinclair, daughter of William Sinclair, Earl of Orkney. His paternal grandmother was Joan Beaufort, former queen-consort of Scotland (to James I). Andrew chose an ecclesiastical career, held a canonry in Dunkeld Cathedral and was rector of Blair parish church (Dunkeld diocese), a church under the control of the earls of Atholl.
After the death in January 1515 of George Brown, Bishop of Dunkeld, a new bishop was needed for that bishopric. Queen Margaret, husband of the recently deceased James IV and mother of the young James V, backed to succeed Brown one Gavin Douglas, a poet and cleric who was Provost of St Giles church in Edinburgh. He was the uncle of the queen's new husband, Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. The queen had put him forward on 20 January 1515, just a few days after Brown's death. Douglas had lately missed out on the position of Archbishop of St Andrews, and so this was in some way intended as compensation. Douglas had a proctor pay 450 florins to the Papal see, and Pope Leo X confirmed his position on 25 May.
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