Donald Martin (6 October 1873 – 6 December 1938) was a
Scottish Roman Catholic
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clergyman who served as the
Bishop of Argyll and the Isles from 1919 to 1938.
Biography
Born in Salen on the
Ardnamurchan peninsula, Scotland on 6 October 1873. He studied at the
Royal Scots College, Valladolid from 1899 to 1905 where his uncle, David McDonald, was rector. He was
ordained
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to the
priesthood on 23 September 1905. He served as
parish priest
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in
Castlebay 1906–08,
curate
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in
Glencoe 1908–09 and parish priest of
Oban
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1909–19.
He was appointed the
Bishop
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of the
Diocese of Argyll and the Isles 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 at Oban.
"Argyll and the Isles, Diocese of", ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'', (Charles George Herbermann, ed.) 1922
/ref> The principal consecrator
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was John Toner, Bishop of Dunkeld, and the principal co-consecrators were James William McCarthy, Bishop of Galloway and Henry Gray Graham, Auxiliary Bishop
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...
of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
References
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1873 births
1938 deaths
Roman Catholic bishops of Argyll and the Isles
Alumni of the Royal Scots College
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Scotland
Scottish Roman Catholic bishops