Roderick MacLean (Scots Gaelic:Ruaidhri Mac Gill-Eathain) was a 16th-century Scottish bishop of the Isles. He was appointed as bishop on 5 March 1550 and died in 1553.
Roderick MacLean | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of the Isles | |
| Diocese | Diocese of Sodor |
| In office | 1550–1553 |
| Predecessor | Ferchar MacEachan |
| Successor | Thomas Stanley |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 1553 |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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.
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